addict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • enPR: ădʹĭkt, IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ɪkt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (verb)
  • enPR: ə-dĭktʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdɪkt/

    • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

addict (plural addicts)

1. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

   a heroin addict

   He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.

   • 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

   • 2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.

2. An adherent or fan (of something).

Synonyms

• (person who is addicted): junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave
• (adherent or fan): adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue
• See also Thesaurus:addict

Derived terms

• addictlike
• addictology
• addictovigilance
• cinemaddict
• coaddict
• cocaine addict
• cyberaddict
• dope addict
• drug addict
• nonaddict
• pseudoaddict
• sex addict

 

Related terms

• addiction
• addictive
• dictate

Translations

person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

• Amharic: ሱሰኛ (susäña)
• Arabic: مُدْمِن m (mudmin), مُدْمِنَة f (mudmina)
• Armenian: մոլ (hy) (mol)
• Asturian: adictu m, drogadictu m
• Bulgarian: наркома́н (bg) m (narkomán)
• Catalan: addicte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上癮的人 / 上瘾的人 (shàngyǐn de rén)

• Czech: závislák m, závislý adj
• Danish: addict (da) c
• Dutch: verslaafde (nl) m
• Esperanto: maniulo, toksomaniulo
• Estonian: sõltlane
• Finnish: riippuvainen (fi), väärinkäyttäjä, -himoinen, addikti (fi), narkomaani (fi), alkoholisti (fi)
• French: dépendant (fr) m, dépendante (fr) f, intoxiqué (fr) m, intoxiquée f, accro m or f (slang)
• German: Süchtiger (de) m, Narkomane (de) m
• Hebrew: מָכוּר m (makhúr)
• Hungarian: függő (hu)
• Icelandic: fíkill (is) m
• Indonesian: pecandu (id)
• Interlingua: narcomano, dependente
• Irish: andúileach m
• Italian: dipendente (it)
• Japanese: 中毒者 (ちゅうどくしゃ, chūdokusha)
• Kannada: ಅಳುಪು (kn) (aḷupu)
• Korean: 중독자(中毒者) (ko) (jungdokja)
• Latin: dēpendēns m
• Macedonian: зависник m (zavisnik)
• Malay: penagih
• Maori: kiriwara, kaiwarawara
• Persian: معتاد (fa) (mo'tâd)
• Polish: nałogowiec (pl) m, uzależniony (pl) m
• Portuguese: viciado (pt) m, adicto (pt) m
• Romanian: dependent (ro) m, dependentă f
• Russian: зави́симый (ru) (zavísimyj), зави́симая (ru) f (zavísimaja), наркома́н (ru) m (narkomán), наркома́нка (ru) f (narkománka) (drug addict)
• Scottish Gaelic: tràill m or f
• Slovene: zasvojenec m, odvisnik m
• Spanish: adicto (es) m, viciado (es) m
• Swahili: mraibu (sw)
• Swedish: missbrukare (sv) c, narkoman (sv) c
• Tagalog: may-sugapa
• Turkish: bağımlı (tr), müptela (tr)
• Vietnamese: người nghiện
• Yiddish: אַדיקט m (adikt)

adherent or fan

• Bulgarian: привъ́рженик (bg) m (privǎ́rženik)
• Catalan: addicte (ca) m
• Czech: fanatik m
• Dutch: fan (nl) m
• Finnish: fani (fi), kannattaja (fi), entusiasti
• Haryanvi: चासड़ू (cāsṛū)
• Icelandic: aðdáandi (is) m
• Indonesian: penggemar (id)
• Polish: fanatyk (pl) m, maniak (pl) m, entuzjasta (pl) m
• Portuguese: fanático (pt) m, entusiasta (pt) m or f
• Russian: приверженец (ru) (priverženec)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainneach m
• Turkish: müptela (tr), düşkün (tr), tutkun (tr)

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• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} verslaafde (1)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מכור m (1)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} toxikomano (1)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} beroende (sv) (1)

Verb

addict (third-person singular simple present addicts, present participle addicting, simple past and past participle addicted)

1. (transitive, Ancient Rome) To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision. [from 16th c.]
2. (reflexive, now rare, archaic) To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc. [from 16th c.]
   • 1640–1706, John Evelyn, “(please specify the date of the diary entry)”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

     They addict themselves to the civil law.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Having resided some time in this place, we returned to the other country-house which we had left, where lord B— addicted himself so much to hunting, and other male diversions, that I began to think he neglected me […] .

3. (transitive, obsolete) To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something. [16th–18th c.]
4. (reflexive, obsolete) To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc. [16th–19th c.]
5. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc. [from 16th c.]
   • January 19, 1754, Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer, number 126:

     That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

6. (transitive) To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted. [from 17th c.]
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

Synonyms

• (cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug): get (someone) hooked
• (devote): consecrate, dedicate, devote
• (adapt): adapt, fit

Derived terms

• addicting
• addictive
• readdict

Descendants

• → Cebuano: adik
• → Tagalog: adik

Translations

to cause to become addicted

• Bulgarian: пристрастявам (pristrastjavam)
• Finnish: aiheuttaa riippuvuutta, orjuuttaa (fi), saada koukkuun, koukuttaa (fi), addiktoida (fi)
• German: süchtig machen
• Hungarian: függővé tesz (hu)
• Maori: wara
• Portuguese: viciar (pt)
• Russian: стать зависимым (statʹ zavisimym)
• Slovene: zasvojiti
• Spanish: causar adicción en, volver adicto, viciar (es)

to devote or dedicate oneself

• Bulgarian: пристрастявам се (pristrastjavam se), навиквам (bg) (navikvam)
• Finnish: omistautua (fi), tulla riippuvaiseksi, jäädä koukkuun, addiktoitua
• Portuguese: viciar-se
• Russian: пристрастить (ru) (pristrastitʹ)
• Spanish: viciarse (es), volverse adicto

Anagrams

• didact

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin addictus or perhaps English addict.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

addict m (plural addicts, feminine addicte)

1. addict

Related terms

• addiction

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdik(t)/

Noun

addict (plural addicts)

1. an addict

Verb

addict (third-person singular simple present addicts, present participle addictin, simple past addictit, past participle addictit)

1. to addict

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.