The meaning of Teetotal

Teetotal – definition

adjective
Choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol.
Usage examples:
A teetotal lifestyle
Synonims:
Abstinent Abstemious Sober Avoiding alcohol On the wagon Off the booze Off the sauce Dry

adjective
Never drinking alcohol or opposed to the drinking of alcohol

Teetotal translation into English

Teetotal: translate from English into Chinese

总酒量

Teetotal: translate from English into Dutch

Geheelonthouder, Geheel, Geheelonthouders-

Teetotal: translate from English into French

Antialcoolique, Qui ne boit jamais d'alcool

Teetotal: translate from English into German

Abstinent

Teetotal: translate from English into Hindi

जो नशे में हो, अमत्त, पूरा पूरा, संपूर्ण, पूर्ण मद्य निषेध विषयक, पूर्ण मद्य-निषेधवादी

Teetotal: translate from English into Italian

Astemio, Antialcolico, Antialcolista

Teetotal: translate from English into Korean

티토탈, 절대금주의, 절대금주주의의, 절대로 ...인

Teetotal: translate from English into Russian

Трезвенник, Непьющий, Трезвый, Абсолютный, Полный

Teetotal: translate from English into Spanish

Abstemio

Word origin

mid 19th century: emphatic extension of total, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere ab

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Teetotal synonims

abstemious

adjective
Indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.
Usage examples:
‘we only had a bottle.’ ‘very abstemious of you.’

adjective
Not doing things that give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking alcohol

All meanings and translations of Abstemious

abstinent

adjective
Refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol.
Usage examples:
The patients are best advised to be totally abstinent from alcohol

adjective
Completely avoiding something such as alcohol or sex
Usage examples:
Sexually abstinent, he has now been abstinent from alcohol for four years.

All meanings and translations of Abstinent

dry

adjective
Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
Usage examples:
The jacket kept me warm and dry

noun
(of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.
Usage examples:
The dry facts of the matter

verb
Free from liquid or moisture

All meanings and translations of Dry

on the wagon

phrase
Abstaining from drinking alcohol.
Usage examples:
He was supposed to be on the wagon

idiom
If you are on the wagon, you have decided not to drink any alcohol
Usage examples:
He was on the wagon for ten years, when he was living in connecticut.

All meanings and translations of On the wagon

sober

adjective
Not affected by alcohol; not drunk.
Usage examples:
Drunk or sober, he was driven by a manic energy and impatience that made him a difficult friend and…

verb
Make or become sober after drinking alcohol.
Usage examples:
That coffee sobered him up

adjective
Having had no alcohol; not drunk
Usage examples:
The sober expression had not left martin’s face.

All meanings and translations of Sober

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