ADDICTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does addicted mean? 

• ADDICTED (adjective)
  The adjective ADDICTED has 1 sense:

1. compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming

  Familiarity information: ADDICTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADDICTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming

Context example:

addicted to cocaine

Similar:

alcohol-dependent; alcoholic (addicted to alcohol)

dependant; dependent; drug-addicted; hooked; strung-out (addicted to a drug)

Antonym:

unaddicted (not addicted)

 Context examples 

Experts say as many as 2 million Americans are addicted to opioids and President Donald Trump has declared it a national health emergency.

(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)

"Are addicted to having a wife in every port?" he suggested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is easy to lose control over cocaine use and become addicted.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Some people get addicted to marijuana after using it for a while.

(Marijuana, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

It is also used to help people who are addicted to opioid drugs such as heroin.

(Methadone hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)

Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He, also, was addicted to crowding her, to veering toward her till his scarred muzzle touched her body, or shoulder, or neck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had a considerable independence besides two good livings—and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Had Fanny been at all addicted to raptures, she must have had a strong attack of them when she first understood what was intended, when her uncle first made her the offer of visiting the parents, and brothers, and sisters, from whom she had been divided almost half her life; of returning for a couple of months to the scenes of her infancy, with William for the protector and companion of her journey, and the certainty of continuing to see William to the last hour of his remaining on land.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Little girl, here is a book entitled the 'Child's Guide,' read it with prayer, especially that part containing 'An account of the awfully sudden death of Martha G—, a naughty child addicted to falsehood and deceit.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)