- Sometimes Offensive.
- a person who has become physically or psychologically dependent on a chemical substance: The leader of the addiction recovery center is, importantly, a self-identified former drug addict.
- a person with an uncontrolled compulsion to continue engaging in an activity despite suffering negative personal or professional consequences:The funding is for treatment programs for sex addicts and pathological gamblers.
- a devoted fan; enthusiast; devotee: She’s a real baseball addict.My kids are manga addicts.
- to cause to become physically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.The documentary claimed that the tobacco industry used marketing techniques to addict new generations of children.
- to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: It can be hard to read a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language. There was a lot of worry about children becoming addicted to video games.
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)
- a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs
- a person who is devoted to something
