unintoxicated
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈtɑːksɪkeɪtɪd/
- After a night of careful moderation, he felt unintoxicated and ready to drive home safely.
Examples
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It is important to remain unintoxicated while participating in the driving test.
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When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile, he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.
Fiction book (1994) -
She was completely unintoxicated after drinking only water all night.
Synonyms
Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs
Completely free of alcohol or drugs
Shows no signs of being drunk
A person who is not affected by alcohol
Not drunk or affected by alcohol
Alert and not tired or drunk
Not consumed as a drink or not affected by alcohol
Antonyms
How Intoxicated
Surface Forms
Morphology
unintoxicated = intoxicated (transparent) = un + intoxicate + ed
A straightforward negation formed by adding 'un-' to 'intoxicated', meaning 'not intoxicated'.
Etymology
Unintoxicated is built from un- meaning 'not' and toxic meaning 'poison'. So it literally means 'not poisoned', which is why we use it for someone who is not affected by alcohol or drugs.