ADDICT

addict

(noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky

(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; “a golf addict”; “a car nut”; “a bodybuilding freak”; “a news junkie”

addict, hook

(verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

addict (plural addicts)

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

An adherent or fan (of something)

Synonyms

• (person who is addicted): junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave

• (adherent or fan): adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue

• See also addict

Verb

addict (third-person singular simple present addicts, present participle addicting, simple past and past participle addicted)

To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a drug

To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Synonyms

• (cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug): get (someone) hooked

• (devote): consecrate, dedicate, devote

• (adapt): adapt, fit

Anagrams

• didact

Source: Wiktionary

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Ad*dict", p. p.

Definition: Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]

Ad*dict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Addicting.] Etym: [L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction.]

1. To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

2. To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

Syn.

– Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. "Addicted to staying at home." J. S. Mill. Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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