addicted
pronunciation
How to pronounce addicted in British English:
UK [əˈdɪktɪd]
How to pronounce addicted in American English:
US [əˈdɪktɪd]
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- Adjective:
- compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
Word Origin
- addicted (adj.)
- 1530s, "delivered over" by judicial sentence; past participle adjective from addict (v.). Modern sense of "dependent" is short for self-addicted "to give over or award (oneself) to someone or some practice" (1560s; exact phrase from c. 1600); specialization to narcotics dependency is from c. 1910.
Example
- 1. Truth : do carpenters become addicted to power tools ?
- 2. The british are addicted to cooking shows .
- 3. I 'm part of the team who built the place , but I 'm also addicted to flickr itself .
- 4. Americans became addicted to debt .
- 5. However , they then become addicted to their own logic and thoughts , and like any addiction it compounds upon itself .