Thesaurus:alcohol

Thesaurus

alcohol

English

Noun

Sense: any of a class of organic compounds containing a hydroxyl functional group

Synonyms

• alcohol

Hyponyms

• fatty alcohol
• sugar alcohol
• polyol
• polyhydric alcohol
• polyalcohol
•   —
• methanol
• ethanol
• propanol
• butanol

Hypernyms

• organic compound    [⇒ thesaurus]
• chemical compound    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

Further reading

• “alcohol” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “alcohol” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.