addict
adj/əˈdɪkt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)
1
Archaic Addicted.
2
Obsolete Bound, tied to, obligated.
addict
noun/ˈæd.ɪkt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)
1
A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
- a heroin addict
- He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
2 more examples
- Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, in The New York Times:
2
An adherent or fan (of something).
- Synonyms
- junkie, slave, adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue, addict, abuser, fiend, wastoid
- Antonyms
- abstainer, mainstreamer, nonaddict
- Derived terms
- addictlike, addictology, addictovigilance, cinemaddict, coaddict, cocaine addict, cyberaddict, dope addict, drug addict, nonaddict, pseudoaddict, sex addict
- Hypernyms
- person
- Hyponyms
80 terms
Drugs in general, baghead, dopehead, dope fiend, drug addict, drug fiend, druggie, druggo, druggy, freak, head, narcomaniac, narcotist, nitty, pillhead, space cadet, tripper, user, Alcohol, drunkard, Amphetamines, motorhead, speedfreak, tweaker, Caffeine, coffeehead, coffeeholic, tea jenny, Cocaine, basehead, cocainist, cokehead, crackhead, crackpot, crack whore, snowbird, speedballer, Cannabis, burnout, potaholic, pothead, stoner, teahead, weedaholic, weedhead, Heroin, heroinist, junkhead, junkie, smackhead, Inhalants, etheromaniac, huffer, rugby boy, LSD, acidhead, Opium, hophead, morphinist, opiumist, Tobacco, chain smoker, nicotinist, tobacconist, Non-intoxicants, aquaholic, chocoholic, sodaholic, sugarholic, blogoholic, cyberaddict, cyberjunkie, danceaholic, lovertine, sex addict, shagaholic, shopaholic, spendaholic, TVaholic, wankaholic