Junkie vs Addict - What's the difference?
junkie | addict |
(slang, offensive, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
(by extension) An enthusiast of something.
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.
Addict is a synonym of junkie.
As nouns the difference between junkie and addict
is that junkie is a narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users while addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.As a verb addict is
to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.junkie
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Alternative forms
* junkyNoun
(en noun)- English people are travel junkies , but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
- My uncle is a classic car junkie .
Quotations
* 1982: (song) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five *: Rats in the front room, roaches in the back. Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* adrenaline junkieSee also
* drug addictaddict
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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.