teetotal
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 8
Definition of teetotal
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
“There is absolutely a teetotal society here in the heart of the mountains, and some quarrelsome drunkards have become reformed!”
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adj
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Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
“There is absolutely a teetotal society here in the heart of the mountains, and some quarrelsome drunkards have become reformed!”
- Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
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(dated, emphatic)Total.
“That's a teetotal lie.”
noun
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One who abstains from drinking alcohol.
“Hubert is trying to persuade James, a strict Presbyterian and teetotal, to come into the pub.”
verb
- (intransitive, uncommon)To advocate or practice the total abstinence from alcohol.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From total, the reduplicated tee acts as an intensifier, hence T-total. First use appears in 1834.
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