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aquaholic

aquaholic adjective: addicted to water.

Adjective

aquaholic (comparative more aquaholic, superlative most aquaholic)

  1. Addicted to water.
  2. Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
    • It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great.1963, Roma K. McNickle, Water: Development, Utilization, Conservation, page 177

Noun

aquaholic (plural aquaholics)

  1. A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.
    • Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water.2008 October 31, Angela Balakrishnan, “Man addicted to water dies by drinking from hosepipe”, in The Guardian.co.uk

Forms of aquaholic

Adjective
comparativemore aquaholic
superlativemost aquaholic
Noun
pluralaquaholics

Origin of aquaholic

From aqua- + -holic.

Questions about aquaholic

What does aquaholic mean?
Aquaholic means addicted to water.
What part of speech is aquaholic?
Aquaholic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near aquaholic in the dictionary

  1. aquaglyceroporin
  2. aquaglyceroporins
  3. aquaglycoporin
  4. aquaglycoporins
  5. aquagym
  6. aquaholic
  7. aquaholics
  8. aquaintance
  9. aquajogging
  10. aquake
  11. aqualf

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