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Addict vs Votary - What's the difference?

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Addict is a synonym of votary.


As nouns the difference between addict and votary

is that addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug while votary is a person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made.

As a verb addict

is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

As an adjective votary is

consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

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

    votary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

    Noun

    (votaries)
  • A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made
  • A devotee of a particular religion or cult
  • A devout or zealous worshipper
  • Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • *:Gerty was dressed simply but with the instinctive taste of a votary of Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be out.

    • Quotations

    ;enthusiast *1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm] *: He is such a votary of the modern that he was inevitably interested in the girl of the future and had matched one reform with another, being ready to marry without a penny, as the clearest way of expressing his appreciation, this favourable specimen of the type.