Definitions for addictive

addictive ad·dic·tive

Spelling: [uh-dik-tiv]
IPA: /əˈdɪk tɪv/

Addictive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in addictive (acddeiitv).

Definitions for addictive

adjective

  1. producing or tending to cause addiction:
  2. more than normally susceptible to addiction:

Origin of addictive

First recorded in 1935-40; addict + -ive

Examples for addictive

I understand all too well how addictive the technology in our pockets can feel.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the morphine derivative is the most addictive drug in its class.

Instead of lessons about the dangerous, addictive, and deadly qualities of prescription opioids, he got lessons on relieving pain.

His focus on the grim and the disturbing is beautiful, and becomes rhythmic, atmospheric, and addictive.

Its addictive “sidebar of shame” catalogues every celebrity roll of fat, fashion faux pas, and shaky early-morning nightclub exit.

He should have reasoned that out long ago; he should have realized it was impossible to have immunity to an addictive drug.

Free and fun -- addictive social games with lots of cool people playing them from all over the world.

It remains a Schedule I narcotic to this day, considered as dangerous and addictive by the federal government as heroin and MDMA.

There are different people who have talked about it and the different theories about power, and that it becomes so addictive.

The fragrance, which will be available in February, is described as an "intoxicating, addictive luminous floral."

Word Value for addictive
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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