addicted

adj — 2 senses

addicted

adj

/əˈdɪktɪd/

1

Having a biochemical addiction.

2

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.1834, William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History, page 26:
Derived terms
addictedness, nonaddicted, overaddicted, pseudoaddicted, readdicted, unaddicted

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