What does intoxicating mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. intoxicant, intoxicatingadjective

    causing

  2. heady, intoxicatingadjective

    extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic

Wiktionary

  1. intoxicatingadjective

    Able to intoxicate; an intoxicant.

  2. intoxicatingadjective

    Very exciting and stimulating, especially as if by alcohol or some stimulant.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Intoxicating

    of Intoxicate

  2. Intoxicatingadjective

    producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of intoxicating in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of intoxicating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of intoxicating in a Sentence

  1. Christine Carugati:

    What ninth grader knows what they want and what ninth grader, never mind an adult, isn't easily swayed, thinking somebody wants me. It's very intoxicating for any age but for a child especially, so my counsel was to keep all your options open.

  2. Saadi Shirazi:

    Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor.

  3. Louis Aragon:

    Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  4. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard:

    If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility

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