addict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ădʹĭkt
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪkt/
enpr: ə-dĭktʹ
ipa: /əˈdɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: addicts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)
Senses: examples: text: a heroin addict
text: He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
text: Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).
ref: 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.
ref: 2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
glosses: An adherent or fan (of something).
Synonyms: sense: person who is addicted
english: one addicted to a drug
translation: one addicted to a drug
word: junkie
sense: person who is addicted
word: slave
sense: adherent or fan
word: adherent
sense: adherent or fan
word: aficionado
sense: adherent or fan
word: devotee
sense: adherent or fan
word: enthusiast
sense: adherent or fan
word: fan
sense: adherent or fan
word: habitue
word: addict
word: abuser
word: fiend
word: wastoid
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: Drugs in general
word: baghead
word: dopehead
word: dope fiend
word: drug addict
word: drug fiend
word: druggie
word: druggo
word: druggy
word: freak
word: head
word: narcomaniac
word: narcotist
word: nitty
word: pillhead
word: space cadet
word: tripper
word: user
word: Alcohol
word: drunkard
word: Amphetamines
word: motorhead
word: speedfreak
word: tweaker
word: Caffeine
word: coffeehead
word: coffeeholic
word: tea jenny
word: Cocaine
word: basehead
word: cocainist
word: cokehead
word: crackhead
word: crackpot
word: crack whore
word: snowbird
word: speedballer
word: Cannabis
word: burnout
word: potaholic
word: pothead
word: stoner
word: teahead
word: weedaholic
word: weedhead
word: Heroin
word: heroinist
word: junkhead
word: junkie
word: smackhead
word: Inhalants
word: etheromaniac
word: huffer
word: rugby boy
word: LSD
word: acidhead
word: Opium
word: hophead
word: morphinist
word: opiumist
word: Tobacco
word: chain smoker
word: nicotinist
word: tobacconist
word: Non-intoxicants
word: aquaholic
word: chocoholic
word: sodaholic
word: sugarholic
word: blogoholic
word: cyberaddict
word: cyberjunkie
word: danceaholic
word: lovertine
word: sex addict
word: shagaholic
word: shopaholic
word: spendaholic
word: TVaholic
word: wankaholic
Derived terms: addictlike
addictology
addictovigilance
cinemaddict
coaddict
cocaine addict
cyberaddict
dope addict
drug addict
nonaddict
pseudoaddict
sex addict
Related terms: word: addiction
word: addictive
word: dictate
word: libertine
word: fan