Addicted
/əˈdɪktɪd/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of addict form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Having a biochemical addiction.
- 2 Devoted to or obsessed with something.
"[…] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it."
Adjective
- 1 compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming wordnet
Example
More examples"Many criminals in America are addicted to drugs."