Addicted vs Addict - What's the difference?
addicted | addict |
Being physically or psychologically dependent on something.
(addict)
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)
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)
* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &
* (rfdate) (Adventurer)
* (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)
* (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
(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.
As verbs the difference between addicted and addict
is that addicted is (addict) while addict is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.As a adjective addicted
is being physically or psychologically dependent on something.As a noun addict is
a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.addicted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is addicted to the Internet.
- She became more addicted to crack than she had ever been to heroin.
Verb
(head)addict
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addictSynonyms
* (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- They addict themselves to the civil law.
- He is addicted to his study.
- That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
- His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
- A man gross ... and addicted to low company.