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Definitions for Addicting
[1] a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
[2] to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.
[3] to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language; children addicted to video games.
[4] (tr; usually passive often foll by to ) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)
[5] a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs
[6] informal a person who is devoted to something a jazz addict
Words related to Addicting
addictperpetual, inveterate, chronic, repeated, addicted, hardened, discipline, school, adjust, inure, confirm, season, devote, acclimate, acclimatize, harden, train, addict, tolerate, familiarize
Words nearby Addicting
addictadder's-meat, adder's-mouth, adder's-tongue, adderall, adderley, addict, addicted, addiction, addictive, addie, adding
Origin of Addicting
1520–30; < Latin addictus assigned, surrendered (past participle of addīcere, equivalent to ad- ad- + dic- (variant stem of dīcere to fix, determine) + -tus past participle suffix)
Other words from Addicting
non·ad·dict , noun
non·ad·dict·ing , adjective
Word origin for Addicting
C16: (as adj and as vb; n use C20): from Latin addictus given over, from addīcere to give one's assent to, from ad- to + dīcere to say
Synonyms for Addicting
addicted, chronic, hardened, inveterate, perpetual, repeated, accepted, accustomed, automatic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, cyclic, disciplined, familiar, fixed, frequent, ingrained, iterated, iterative, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, reiterative, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted