Cocktail is an iced drink of wine or alcoholic beverages mixed with flavorful ingredients.
While that is a very broad definition, it reflects the modern practice of referring to almost any beverage mixed as a cocktail.
To be more precise, Cocktail is a refreshing drink, blended with spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.
Adjective Words to Describe Cocktails
Following are common adjectives for describing cocktails and drinks:
| Word | Meaning |
| canned | sealed in a can or jar |
| delicious | greatly pleasing or entertaining |
| expensive | high in price or charging high prices |
| extraordinary | far more than usual or expected |
| fascinating | capturing interest as if by a spell |
| frothy | marked by high spirits or excitement |
| intoxicating | extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic |
| moderate | to certain extent or degree |
| nonalcoholic | not containing alcohol |
| perfectly | in a perfect or faultless way |
| pleasant | being in harmony with your taste or likings |
| popular | representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large |
| prefered | more desirable than another |
| pychoactive | affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes |
| raspberry | red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries |
| seductive | tending to entice into a desired action or state |
| solvent | a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances |
| soporific | inducing mental lethargy |
| stiff | very drunk |
| stunning | causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility |
| toxic | of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison |
| typical | conforming to a type |
| uninspired | having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement |
| unusual | to a remarkable degree or extent |
| volatile | a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor |