Definitions for addicted

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addicted ad·dict·ed

Spelling: [uh-dik-tid]

IPA: /əˈdɪk tɪd/

Addicted is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in addicted (acdddeit).

Definitions for addicted

noun

1. a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance:

adjective

1. devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming (usually followed by to):

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:

Origin of addicted

First recorded in 1550-60; addict + -ed²

Examples for addicted

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

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

She wore her wounds with pride, addicted to looking as sick as she felt—a warrior in an interminable battle against herself.

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

Paddle8 already has a “sticky collector base who are addicted to the site,” he says.

I sometimes feel vexed by—but also addicted to—a sense of conflict, or a sense of being at odds with myself, or my choices.

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

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

In this “Just Say No” society, are we addicted to drug testing?

He dealt drugs, was addicted to cocaine by the time he was 13, and found himself constantly in trouble with the law.