alcoholic

noun

1. A person who is addicted to alcohol.

   “Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes Daddy was an alcoholic”

   “Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.”

2. One who abuses alcohol.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to alcohol.
2. Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.

   “He ordered an alcoholic beverage.”

   “The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic.”

   “A statement from the official Lao News Agency (KPL) Friday reported that “the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages” was the suspected cause of the deaths.”

3. Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.