Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or made with wine.
- adj. Affected or caused by the consumption of wine.
- adj. Having the color of wine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the qualities of wine: as, a vinous flavor; pertaining to wine or its manufacture.
- In zoology, wine-colored; vinaceous.
- Caused by wine.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to wine
Etymologies
- From Latin vinosus, from vīnum ("wine"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin vīnōsus, from vīnum, wine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first fermentation in cider is termed the vinous; in this the sugar is decomposed, and loses its sweetness, and is converted into alcohol; if the fermentation goes on too rapidly, the cider is injured; a portion of alcohol passes off with the carbonic acid.”
“He is the last gentleman, that I know of, of that old school that used to import their own wine and lay it down annually themselves, -- their bins forming a kind of vinous calendar suggestive of great events.”
“1234Wines of the weekTwo around Euro12J0HN WILSON IN THE CULT wine film Mondovino, wine consultant Michel Rolland is portrayed as some kind of vinous Ernst Blofeld, with evil tentacles stretching out all over industry are the innovations introduced by small, young, family-owned enterprises.”
“At eleven o’clock two-thirds of the sun were covered, and all terrestrial objects became a kind of vinous red.”
“Even Mr. Ellenbogen, whose wine list is an exercise in vinous esoterica, has a Chardonnay among his Bar Agricole offerings, albeit one made in the mountains of Jura, France, and blended with the Savagin grape.”
The Wall Street Journal: Some Wine 'Rules' Are Made to Be Broken
“He and Mr. Stuckey travel to Italy several times a year to immerse themselves in the country's vinous and gastronomic culture.”
“Of course, the wine auction scene is only one measure of a town's vinous standing.”
The Wall Street Journal: Here's to Chicago, That Tipplin' Town
“And one of my favorite stories of vinous redemption these days is Soave.”
The Wall Street Journal: Italy's Soave Makes a Refreshing Return
“Be sure to pack some bottles of Provence's hidden vinous gems in your basket, such as Cassis, Bandol, Palette and Bellet.”
“I'd barely gotten off the airplane in Madrid a few years ago when Mr. Rodriguez began telling me about his vinous vision.”
The Wall Street Journal: Drink, Memory: How to Remember That Wine
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vinous’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Grapes
sour grapes, grape, grapes, raisin, Nehi grape soda, Petit Verdot, Concord, Pinot Meunier, scuppernong, muscadine, Catawba, seedless and 112 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Feather, Mug, Knit, Socks, Snug, Soft, Butter, Nugget, Noodle, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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vocab
numinous, gloze, diffident, soporific, lissome, rebarbative, trope, deliquesce, abjure, obdurate, pugilistic, puerile and 265 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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...a list from a notebook...
I found several pages of words in an old notebook. By the looks of it, they were words I learnt some time ago (and subsequently wrote down) from books by Patrick O'Brian and China Mieville, two aut...
trabacaloes, jocosity, ordnance, transom, douceur, purser, nostrum, gaby, sea-lawyer, bowsprit, officious, hobnailed and 124 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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