Meanings
alternative British mainly non-alcoholic
- not comparableContaining no more than trace amounts of alcohol.
Synonyms: alcohol-free · Antonyms: alcoholic
plural nonalcoholics · alternative British mainly non-alcoholic
- One who is not an alcoholic.
A quarantine is indeed a trying time. Where “people who can drink normally” — A.A. lingo for nonalcoholics — are stocking up on liquor, A.A. members, and there are some 2.1 million of us, are hellbent on keeping the meetings going.
2020 April 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Staying Sober During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times - A nonalcoholic beverage.
When asked if there was a degree of sadness to transition to non-alcoholics after nearly two decades of making spirits, Mathews said no.
2023 February 22, Kai Ryssdal, Sean McHenry, “The LA distillery ginning up business in the non-alcoholic spirit market”, in Marketplace
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot involving alcohol as its cause.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecharacterized by the absence of alcohol
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
- Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
- Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
- Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
- Medieval Latinalcoho
- Middle Englishalcofol
- Englishalcohol
- Englishalcoholic
- Englishnonalcoholic
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 非酒精性, 無酒精 /无酒精
- 非酒精性 (fēijiǔjīngxìng)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
- 無酒精 /无酒精 (wú jiǔjīng)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Czech nealkoholický
- nealkoholickýcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Estonian alkoholivaba
- alkoholivabacontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Finnish alkoholiton
- alkoholitoncontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
French non alcoolisé, sans alcool
- non alcoolisécontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
- sans alcoolcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
German alkoholfrei
- alkoholfreicontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Hindi अमादक
- अमादक (amādak)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Hungarian alkoholmentes
- alkoholmentescontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Japanese ノンアルコール
- ノンアルコール (non'arukōru)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Korean 논알코올, 비알코올
- 논알코올 (nonalkool)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
- 비알코올 (bialkool)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Norwegian Bokmål alkoholfri
- alkoholfricontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Persian غیرالکلی
- غیرالکلی (ġeyre-alkoli)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Polish bezalkoholowy
- bezalkoholowycontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Romanian nealcoolic
- nealcooliccontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Russian безалкого́льный
- безалкого́льный (bezalkogólʹnyj)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Slovak nealkoholický, nealko
- nealkoholickýcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
- nealkocontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Spanish analcohólico, sin alcohol
- analcohólicocontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
- sin alcoholcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Turkish alkolsüz
- alkolsüzcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Ukrainian безалкого́льний
- безалкого́льний (bezalkohólʹnyj)containing at most trace amounts of alcohol
Welsh dialcohol
- dialcoholcontaining at most trace amounts of alcohol
Cite this entry
nonalcoholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonalcoholic
“nonalcoholic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonalcoholic. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonalcoholic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonalcoholic.
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