addicted

B2
US /əˈdɪktɪd/
adj verb Freq #8140

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming

    I am addicted to chocolate.

  2. 2
    adj

    Devoted to or obsessed with something.

    […] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it.

  3. 3
    adj

    Having a biochemical addiction.

  4. 4
    verb

    simple past and past participle of addict

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms addictednessnonaddictedoveraddictedpseudoaddictedreaddictedunaddicted

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