Addict

Definition: Addict

Addict

Noun

1. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a control freak".

2. Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms.

Verb

1. To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp. a narcotic drug).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "addict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Addict

Impulse

Get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.

Crosswords: Addict

She's a drug addict. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

Who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict. And now I'm ready (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I'm an addicted addict! (Remember WENN; writing credit: Erik Amdrup; Jonas Cornell)

How can you be a drug addict in the new millennium, Lyle (Cecil B. DeMented; writing credit: John Waters)

H: The Story of a Teen-Age Drug Addict (1951)

Drug Addict (1948)

Anal Addict (1995)

I Am a Sex Addict (1993)

The Addict (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Confessions of a Street Addict (reference)

• Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Diary of a Sex Addict (reference)

• Addict (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• AUDIO TECHNICA Sound Addict "Bite" Dynamic Instrument Microphone (reference)

• Tennis Addict (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

... an opium addict in Iran lights his pipe of dreams. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The outfit of the heroin addict. / Official photograph issued by the Narcotics Bureau, Hong Kong Police. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[An opium addict in Iran lights his pipe of dreams] / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At First He Was Sure He'd Never Become A Heroin Addict. : Now He's Not Sure He'll Ever Be Anything Else. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

This may be because the patient in pain is simply seeking relief of pain and not the rush sought by the addict. (references)

Heroin withdrawal is never fatal to otherwise healthy adults, but it can cause death to the fetus of a pregnant addict. (references)

These illnesses can be brought on by behaviors, such as poor living and health habits, that often accompany life as an addict, or because of toxic effects of the drugs themselves. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

Much of Afghanistan's opium production is refined into heroin and is either consumed by a growing South Asian addict population or exported, primarily to Europe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "addict": addict oneself ♦ addict oneself to ♦ addict smb. ♦ alcohol addict ♦ caffein addict ♦ caffeine addict ♦ chess addict ♦ cocaine addict ♦ dope addict ♦ drug addict ♦ ether addict ♦ film addict ♦ hashish addict ♦ heroin addict ♦ morphia addict ♦ morphine addict ♦ opium addict ♦ smoking addict. Additional references.

Ending with "addict": alcohol-addict, drug-addict, ex-addict, needle-addict, opium-addict, sack-addict.

Albanian

i droguar (dopey, dopy, drugged, hooked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أغرى (bait, beckon, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo), ‏دمن (intoxicate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страстен привърженик, свиквам (accustom, adjust oneself, call, call together, call up, convene, convoke, get acclimatized, habituate, inure, muster, summon), роб (bondservant, bondslave, bondsman, chattel, galley slave, helot, mameluke, predial, serf, slave, thrall, vassal), отдавам се (employ oneself, give oneself, indulge, lapse, revel), наркоман (acid head, dope, drug addict, freak, head, junker, junkie, junky, narcotic), любител (amateur, connoisseur, dilettante, fancier, ham, hound, laic, lover, merchant, outsider), пристрастявам се (become addicted), привърженик (adherent, believer, follower, hanger-on, henchman, lover, partisan, proselyte, supporter, upholder, votary), поклонник (admirer, adorer, idolater, palmer, pilgrim, suitor, votary, worshiper). (various references)

Chinese 

有藥癮者 , 上瘾者. (various references)

Czech

toxikoman (drug addict), oddat se (resign, surrender), narkoman (drug addict, drug user, junkie), fanoušek (buff, fan, fiend). (various references)

Danish

røv (anus, arse, ass), narkoman (drug addict), misbruger (bandit), junkie (drug addict, hard-core addict, junkie, smacker, smackhead), fixedyr (drug addict, hard-core addict, junkie, needle-addict, needlefreak, needler), eufoman (drug addict). (various references)

Dutch

verslaafde (drug addict), toxicomaan (drug addict). (various references)

Esperanto

narkotiulo (drug addict), morfinmaniulo (morphine addict, morphinomaniac). (various references)

Farsi 

معتاد (Given, Habitual, Habitue, Inveterate), عادی کردن , عادت (Accustom, Custom, Hank, Rote, Rut, Ure, Usage, Vogue, Wont), خوگرفته (Wont), خوگرفتگی , خودادن (Inure, Season), اعتیاددادن , اعتیاد (Addiction). (various references)

Finnish

alkoholisti (alcohol addict, alcoholic), alkoholin orja (drink addict), narkomaani (drug abuser, drug addict, junkie), morfinisti (morphine addict), huumausaineen käyttäjä (drug addict junkie). (various references)

French

toxicomane (drug addict), intoxiqué (addicted, drug addict), accro (drug addict). (various references)

German

sich hingeben (abandon oneself, dedicate oneself, devote oneself, indulge, to addict to), Süchtiger (drug addict), Süchtige (addicts). (various references)

Greek 

ναρκομανής (drug addict), εθίζω (condition). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתמכר. (various references)

Hungarian

rabja vminek (fiend, thrall, to be addicted). (various references)

Indonesian

pecandu (enthusiast, fan, habitue, opium addict). (various references)

Italian

tossicomane (drug addict), tossicodipendente (drug addict). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

常用者 (constant user). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じょうようしゃ (automobile, constant user). (various references)

Korean 

중독자. (various references)

Manx

miandagh (craver, desirable, desirous, lustful), cleaynaghey (allure, corrupt, decoy, entice, gravitate, induce, inveigle, lure, seduce), cleaynagh (attractive, circumventory, coaxing, deviationist, inclinable, inclining, pervert, slopewise, tempter, witching). (various references)

Norwegian

avhengig (addicted), stoffmisbruker (junkie). (various references)

Pig Latin

addictay.(various references)

Portuguese

agarrado (clinging, stuck to), viciar (debauch, spoil, taint, vitiate), viciado (addicted, dope fiend, fiend, vicious), toxicodependente (drug addict), toxicómano (drug addict, drug-produced experience), entregar-se a, drogado (dopey, dopy, drug addict, freak-out, junkie, stoned), dedicar-se (mind). (various references)

Romanian

vicios (depraved, inveterate, nefarious, vicious), persoanã care are patima fumatului, persoanã care are patima beţiei. (various references)

Russian 

наркоман (acidhead, dope addict, dope fiend, drug addict, drug fiend, drug taker, druggie, junkie, junky), предаваться чему-л. (abandon oneself, devote oneself to, give oneself up to), предаваться наркоман. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

adikt, rob rđave navike, odati se (take to, take up). (various references)

Spanish

adicto (acquiescent, be, devoted, resign oneself, result, user). (various references)

Swedish

slav (bondman, fiend, helot, slav, slave), narkotikaslav. (various references)

Thai

ผู้ติดยาเสพย์ติด (drug addict). (various references)

Turkish

alıştırmak (accommodate, accustom, adjust, attune, break in, condition, conform, dovetail, enure, exercise, familiarize, habituate, harden, inure, regrind, school, season, train), alışmak (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate oneself, adjust, be in the habit of doing, become inured to, become reconciled to, drop into a habit, get accustomed to smth., get used to, orient oneself, orientate oneself, reconcile oneself to, school oneself to, season, take to), tiryaki olmak, tiryaki (addicted, confirmed, fiend, inveterate), meraklı (addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), düşkün (addicted, affected, almsman, decayed, devotee, doting, down at heels, fallen, fallen on hard times, fond, given to, jealous, jealous of, keen, keen on, partial, poor, sharp-set), bağımlısı olmak (be hooked on), bağımlı (addicted, clinging, confirmed, dependent, freak, given to, habitual, hooked, in the bondage of vice, interdependent, inveterate, linked, subject, subsidiary). (various references)

Ukrainian

віддаватися (abandon, sell oneself), наркоман (dope, junkie, mindbender, narcotic, user), захоплюватися (admire, applaud, enthuse, go for, rave, take away), присвячувати (bestow, consecrate, dedicate, devote, inscribe, vow). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người nghiện. (various references)

Welsh

ymroddi (apply oneself, devote oneself, resign oneself, surrender, yield oneself). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "addict": addicted, addicting, addiction, addictions, addictive, addicts. (additional references)

Words ending with "addict": nonaddict, readdict. (additional references)

Words containing "addict": nonaddictive, nonaddicts, readdicted, readdicting, readdicts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Addict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdick, Adac, Addacs, addct, addi, addicate, addick, addit, adduck, adic, Adick, adict, adicte, adiet, adist, adoic, Adpcm, adsit, idict, oddict. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: didact.

-1 letter: dicta.

-2 letters: acid, adit, cadi, caid, dita.

-3 letters: act, add, aid, ait, cad, cat, dad, did, dit, tad, tic.

-4 letters: ad, ai, at, id, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: addicts, didacts.

+2 letters: addicted, dedicate, dictated, didactic, didactyl, readdict.

+3 letters: abdicated, addicting, addiction, addictive, adducting, adduction, adductive, candidate, candidest, dadaistic, deciduate, decimated, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, dedicator, didactics, discanted, distanced, indicated, medicated, nonaddict, radicated, readdicts.

+4 letters: accredited, acidulated, addictions, adductions, adjudicate, autodidact, candidates, carditides, coadmitted, dedicatees, dedicating, dedication, dedicators, dedicatory, desiccated, didactical, diffracted, discordant, dislocated, dispatched, distracted, duplicated, elucidated, eradicated, maledicted, nonaddicts, predicated, readdicted, rededicate, syndicated, undidactic, vindicated, wildcatted.