teetotal
Adjective
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Adjective
teetotal
- Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
- Synonyms: on the wagon, straightedge
- Antonyms: alcoholic, dipsomaniac, drunkard
- Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
- (dated, emphatic) Total.
- French: abstinent
- German: gänzlich enthaltsam, völlig abstinent
- Italian: astemio
- Russian: тре́звенник
- Spanish: abstemio
- Spanish: abstemio
- Spanish: total
teetotal (plural teetotals)
- One who abstains from drinking alcohol.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island (novel), London: Review, Chapter Twelve, p. 137,
- Hubert is trying to persuade James, a strict Presbyterian and teetotal, to come into the pub.
- Synonyms: teetotaler, pioneer
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island (novel), London: Review, Chapter Twelve, p. 137,
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