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Alcoholic vs Audiobook - What's the difference?

alcoholic | audiobook |

As nouns the difference between alcoholic and audiobook

is that alcoholic is a person addicted to alcohol while audiobook is a recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.

As an adjective alcoholic

is of or pertaining to alcohol.

alcoholic

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person addicted to alcohol.
  • * - Alcoholic
  • Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
    Daddy was an alcoholic
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • One who abuses alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * dipsomaniac, drunkard

    Antonyms

    * teetotaler, on the wagon

    See also

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to alcohol.
  • Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
  • He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
    The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
  • Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
  • Antonyms

    * nonalcoholic

    Derived terms

    * Alcoholics Anonymous ----

    audiobook

    Alternative forms

    * audio-book * audio book

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recording, usually made available for sale, of a reading of the full text or of an abridgement of a book.
  • Synonyms

    * talking book

    See also

    * driveway moment