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addicted

[uh-dik-tid]
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adjective
  1. devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming (usually followed by to): to be addicted to drugs.

Origin of addicted

First recorded in 1550–60; addict + -ed2
Related formsad·dict·ed·ness, nounnon·ad·dict·ed, adjectiveun·ad·dict·ed, adjectivewell-ad·dict·ed, adjective

addict

[noun ad-ikt; verb uh-dikt]
noun
  1. a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
verb (used with object)
  1. to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.
  2. to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language; children addicted to video games.

Origin of addict

1520–30; < Latin addictus assigned, surrendered (past participle of addīcere, equivalent to ad- ad- + dic- (variant stem of dīcere to fix, determine) + -tus past participle suffix)
Related formsnon·ad·dict, nounnon·ad·dict·ing, adjective

Synonyms for addict

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1. adherent, devotee; fanatic; junkie.
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Related Words for addicted

devoted, obsessed, hooked, inclined, absorbed, accustomed, attached, predisposed, habituated, disposed, hyped, imbued, dependent, fanatic, fond

Examples from the Web for addicted

Contemporary Examples of addicted

Historical Examples of addicted

  • They do not wear gloves, nor are they addicted to scent on their pocket-handkerchiefs.

  • In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence.

  • He was remarkably truthful, and was neither dissipated nor addicted to drink.

    Father Sergius

    Leo Tolstoy

  • He was so 'addicted to lying that his parents could not distinguish when he was speaking the truth.

    Bunyan

    James Anthony Froude

  • To the use of lots and auguries, they are addicted beyond all other nations.

British Dictionary definitions for addicted

addict

verb (əˈdɪkt)
  1. (tr; usually passive often foll by to) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)
noun (ˈædɪkt)
  1. a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs
  2. informal a person who is devoted to somethinga jazz addict

Word Origin for addict

C16: (as adj and as vb; n use C20): from Latin addictus given over, from addīcere to give one's assent to, from ad- to + dīcere to say
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for addicted
adj.

1530s, "delivered over" by judicial sentence; past participle adjective from addict (v.). Modern sense of "dependent" is short for self-addicted "to give over or award (oneself) to someone or some practice" (1560s; exact phrase from c.1600); specialization to narcotics dependency is from c.1910.

addict

n.

1909, in reference to morphine, from addict (v.).

addict

v.

1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
addicted in Medicine

addict

[ăd′ĭkt]
n.
  1. One who is addicted, as to narcotics or a compulsive activity.
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