alcoholic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

First attested 1891, from alcohol + -ic.

You know about the invisible factors of fermentation, and how the fate of a jar of milk--whether it turn into a sour clot or a mass of koumiss--depends on whether the lactic acid ferment or the alcoholic is introduced first, and gets ahead of the other in starting the process. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
Even to her mother’s gaze the girl’s young features looked sadly out of place amid the alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrinkled middle-age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess’s dark eyes needed to make her father and mother rise from their seats, hastily finish their ale, and descend the stairs behind her, Mrs Rolliver’s caution following their footsteps. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy

alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse

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