addicted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɪktɪd/

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Adjective

addicted (comparative more addicted, superlative most addicted)

1. Having a biochemical addiction.
2. Devoted to or obsessed with something.
   • 1834, William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History, page 26:

     […] 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.

Derived terms

• addictedness
• nonaddicted
• overaddicted
• pseudoaddicted
• readdicted
• unaddicted

 

Translations

having an insatiable need for a biochemical substance

• Azerbaijani: asılı
• Catalan: addicte (ca)
• German: süchtig (de)
• Hebrew: מכור m (makhúr)
• Hungarian: függő (hu)
• Italian: dipendente (it)
• Maori: warawara, wara
• Persian: مُعتاد (fa), خوگِرِفتَه (fa)
• Romanian: dependent (ro)
• Spanish: dependiente (es), adicto (es), viciado (es) (+ a), enganchado (es) (+ a)
• Turkish: düşkün (tr), bağımlı (tr)

Verb

addicted

1. simple past and past participle of addict