Word Meanings - SPIRITUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;

Additional info about word: SPIRITUOUS

1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors. 3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. Sir H. Wotton. The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPIRITUOUS)

• Volatile
• Vaporizable
• sublimable
• distillable
• airy
• spirituous
• evaporating
• gay
• Iively
• capricious
• irresolute

Related words: (words related to SPIRITUOUS)

• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SUBLIMABLE
  Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
  Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
• IRRESOLUTE
  Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. --
• EVAPORATE
  1. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible. 2. To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates
• VOLATILE
  1. Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. 2. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation. Note: Substances which affect the
• VAPORIZABLE
  Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
• DEVAPORATION
  The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.