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Alcoholic vs Intemperant - What's the difference?

alcoholic | intemperant |

As adjectives the difference between alcoholic and intemperant

is that alcoholic is alcoholic while intemperant is intemperate.

As a noun alcoholic

is alcoholic.

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

    Related terms

    * alcohol

    Derived terms

    * Alcoholics Anonymous ----

    intemperant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) intemperate
    • Such as be intemperant , that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. — Udall.
    (Webster 1913)