intoxicant vs ethyl alcohol

ethyl alcohol vs intoxicant

intoxicant and ethyl alcohol both are nouns.

intoxicant is an adjective but ethyl alcohol is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
intoxicant	Yes	Yes	No	No
ethyl alcohol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ethyl alcohol is a hyponym of intoxicant; that is, ethyl alcohol is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than intoxicant:

intoxicant: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
ethyl alcohol: nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs

Other hyponyms of intoxicant include proof spirit, home brew, homebrew, hooch, hootch, kava, kavakava, aperitif, brew, brewage, rice beer, sake, saki, nipa, vino, wine, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink, neutral spirits, pulque, cordial, liqueur, mixed drink, hard cider, perry, rotgut, slug, koumiss, kumis.

intoxicant (noun)	ethyl alcohol (noun)
a drug that can produce a state of intoxication	nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs
a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent	the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

intoxicant (adjective)	ethyl alcohol (adjective)
causing intoxication

Difference between intoxicant and ethyl alcohol

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