nondrinkers

plural of nondrinker
as in abstainers
a person who abstains from alcoholic beverages a variety of nonalcoholic drinks for the nondrinkers at the party

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Recent Examples of nondrinkers Back in Munich, the beer story widens beyond the festival tents and zeroes in on a place where even nondrinkers consider their visit a pilgrimage. — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026 There's plenty for nondrinkers, too. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026 Many of us — maybe most of us — are both drinkers and nondrinkers, depending on the mood, the company, the day of the week, the month. — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026 Those studies, however, focused on older people and didn’t differentiate between former drinkers and lifelong nondrinkers, thus potentially skewing the results, study authors said. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025 Second, nonalcoholic products have been successfully marketed not only to nondrinkers but to regular beer consumers. — Clark Da​nderson, The Conversation, 13 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nondrinkers
abstainers
Noun
  • Strikingly, this came at the expense of the time workers spent on highly focused, uninterrupted work, which fell by 9 percent for AI users, and stayed the same for AI abstainers.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Heavier drinkers had higher mortality than lighter drinkers, but the study excluded lifelong abstainers — many of whom stop drinking because of illness or medication use.
    — Robert M. Kaplan, STAT, 1 Jan. 2026

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“Nondrinkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nondrinkers. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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