Addict vs Obsessed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between addict and obsessed

is that addict is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug while obsessed is (obsess).

As a noun addict

is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

As an adjective obsessed is

intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.

addict

English

Noun

(en noun)

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

* He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.

An adherent or fan (of something)

Derived terms

* cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addict

Synonyms

* (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See also

Verb

(en verb)

To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug

To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

* (rfdate), (John Evelyn)

They addict themselves to the civil law.

* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &

He is addicted to his study.

* (rfdate) (Adventurer)

That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)

His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

A man gross ... and addicted to low company.

(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

* (rfdate) (John Evelyn)

* The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.

Synonyms

* get (someone) hooked * (devote) consecrate, dedicate, devote * (adapt) adapt, fit

Derived terms

* addicting * addictive

Anagrams

* English heteronyms

obsessed

English

Verb

(head)

(obsess)

Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.

*E. W. Sprague, 1915 , Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism , page 86, ISBN 0766140725.

*:Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess' one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is ' obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.

*2007 , James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus , page 100, ISBN 1430303913.

*:It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...

*2010 , Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom , page 71, ISBN 1612154107.

*:What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?

Adjective

(en adjective)

Intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.

* 1997 , Philip Roth, American Pastoral :

What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed , though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.

* 1999 , Mark Lawson, The Guardian , 28 Jun 1999:

Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?

* 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :

Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed .