nonalcoholic

See also: non-alcoholic

English

Alternative forms

• non-alcoholic (mainly British)

Etymology

From non- +‎ alcoholic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

nonalcoholic (not comparable)

1. Containing no more than trace amounts of alcohol.

   Synonym: alcohol-free

   Antonym: alcoholic

2. (medicine) Not involving alcohol as its cause.

   Antonym: alcoholic

Translations

containing at most trace amounts of alcohol

• Belarusian: безалкаго́льны (bjezalkahólʹny)
• Carpathian Rusyn: неалкоголо́вый (nealkoholóvŷj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非酒精性 (fēijiǔjīngxìng), 無酒精／无酒精 (wú jiǔjīng)

• Czech: nealkoholický (cs) m
• Estonian: alkoholivaba (et)
• Finnish: alkoholiton (fi)
• French: non alcoolisé, sans alcool
• Georgian: არაალკოჰოლური (araalḳoholuri), უალკოჰოლო (ualḳoholo)
• German: alkoholfrei (de)
• Hungarian: alkoholmentes (hu)
• Japanese: ノンアルコール (non'arukōru)
• Macedonian: безалкохо́лен (bezalkohólen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alkoholfri

  Nynorsk: alkoholfri

• Persian: غیرالکلی (ğeyre-alkoli)
• Polish: bezalkoholowy (pl) m
• Romanian: nealcoolic (ro) m
• Russian: безалкого́льный (ru) (bezalkogólʹnyj)
• Slovak: nealkoholický m, nealko
• Slovene: brezalkoholen m
• Spanish: analcohólico, sin alcohol
• Turkish: alkolsüz (tr)
• Ukrainian: безалкого́льний (uk) (bezalkohólʹnyj)
• Welsh: dialcohol, heb alcohol

Noun

nonalcoholic (plural nonalcoholics)

1. One who is not an alcoholic.
   • 2020 April 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Staying Sober During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

2. A nonalcoholic beverage.
   • 2023 February 22, Kai Ryssdal, Sean McHenry, “The LA distillery ginning up business in the non-alcoholic spirit market”, in Marketplace‎^[2]:

     When asked if there was a degree of sadness to transition to non-alcoholics after nearly two decades of making spirits, Mathews said no.