Meanings of Addicted

        Sentence:
        He is addicted to smoking.

Sr.	English Words	Urdu Words
1	ADDICTED Adjective	عادی ۔ عادتاً عامِل ۔ نَشَئی ۔
2	ADDICTED	عادی ہوا ۔
3	ADDICTED TO	بُری عادت میں مبتلا ہونا ۔
4	ADDICTED TO LOW COMPANY Noun	بُری صحبت کا عادی ۔

addicted

[uh-dik-tid]

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adjective

1.

devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming (usually followed by to):

to be addicted to drugs.

Origin

1550-1560

1550-60; addict + -ed²

Related forms

addictedness, noun

nonaddicted, adjective

unaddicted, adjective

well-addicted, adjective

addict

[n. ad-ikt; v. uh-dikt]

noun

1.

a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance:

a drug addict.

verb (used with object)

2.

to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.

3.

to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively:

a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language; children addicted to video games.

Origin

1520-30; < Latin addictus assigned, surrendered (past participle of addīcere, equivalent to ad- ad- + dic- (variant stem of dīcere to fix, determine) + -tus past participle suffix)

Related forms

nonaddict, noun

nonaddicting, adjective

Synonyms

1. adherent, devotee; fanatic; junkie.

Examples from the web for addicted

• Most people who experiment with drugs, then, do not become addicted.
• And for riders addicted to the rush of pant-flapping velocity, there is no alternative choice.
• And, severely addicted people on certain narcotics not only need help in getting off their addiction.
• If you can't stop ordering dopamine, you're probably addicted.
• How rare such places have become in a society addicted to quick fixes, executive summaries, and idiot's guides.
• The lifelong teetotaller and anti-smoker was addicted to sleeping pills.
• And for snowboarders addicted to the sounds of jacket-flapping velocity, there is no other option.
• First, treatment seekers may be more severely addicted than self-changers.
• And as drug use rises in society, they added, the number of addicted nurses is probably increasing.
• Though readers might feel addicted to their blogs, participants in the study did not report feeling overloaded. 

British Dictionary definitions for addicted

addict

verb (əˈdɪkt)

1.

(transitive; usually passive) often foll by to. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)

noun (ˈædɪkt)

2.

a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs

3.

(informal) a person who is devoted to something: a jazz addict

Word Origin

C16: (as adj and as vb; n use C20): from Latin addictus given over, from addīcere to give one's assent to, from ad- to + dīcere to say

Word Origin and History for 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.

addict

v.

1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.

n.

1909, in reference to morphine, from addict (v.).

addicted in Medicine

addict ad·dict (ə-dĭkt')
v. ad·dict·ed, ad·dict·ing, ad·dicts
To become or cause to become compulsively and physiologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. n. (ād'ĭkt)
One who is addicted, as to narcotics.

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