intoxicant

[ in-tok-si-kuhnt ]

noun

1. an intoxicating intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.

adjective

1. intoxicating intoxicating or exhilarating:

   the clear, intoxicant air of the mountains.

intoxicant

/ ɪnˈtɒksɪkənt /

noun

1. anything that causes intoxication

adjective

1. causing intoxication

Other Words From

• nonin·toxi·cant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of intoxicant¹

1860–65; < Medieval Latin intoxicant- (stem of intoxicāns ), present participle of intoxicāre to poison. See in- ², toxicant

Example Sentences

The use of cannabis as an intoxicant began to take hold in America in the early 1900s.

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Sikhs are also not supposed to consume alcohol, which is viewed as a distracting intoxicant.

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Koon: Because I believed that this individual was under the influence of some intoxicant.

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She could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after righteousness in love.

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The fever of the game flamed in her cheeks and eyes, and it got into her blood and into her brain like an intoxicant.

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Royal was teasing me, sure of my refusal to indulge in any intoxicant.

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The giving, selling, or trading of any sort of intoxicant to the Indians was absolutely prohibited.

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Whether the wine or the dance were the chief intoxicant, a tipsiness of mood prevailed everywhere.

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