Compulsive vs Addict - What's the difference?
compulsive | addict |
uncontrolled or reactive and unconscious
* 1990 , :
Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
* Sharp
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 nouns the difference between compulsive and addict
is that compulsive is one who exhibits compulsive behaviours while addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.As an adjective compulsive
is uncontrolled or reactive and unconscious.As a verb addict is
to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.compulsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Under this Act, the term "disability" shall not include—...(2) compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania; or...
- Religion is inconsistent with all compulsive motives.
Derived terms
* compulsivenessExternal links
* * * ----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.