Unfear vs Addict - What's the difference?
unfear | addict |
Want, lack, or absence of fear; fearlessness.
*2009 , John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg - Page 163 :
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 unfear and addict
is that unfear is want, lack, or absence of fear; fearlessness 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.unfear
English
Noun
(en-noun)- It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear' of him—if ' unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.
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.