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English
Etymology
First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opium. There is an isolated instance from 1779, with reference to tobacco.
Pronunciation
Adjective
addictive (comparative more addictive, superlative most addictive)
- Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
These are addictive drugs.
- Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
- 1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
- There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive
- Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
He has an addictive personality.
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Translations
tending to cause addiction
- Arabic: إِدْمَانِيّ (ʔidmāniyy)
- Catalan: addictiu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 使人成癮的 / 使人成瘾的 (shǐrén chéngyǐn de)
- Czech: návykový m
- Dutch: verslavend (nl)
- Esperanto: dependiga
- Finnish: riippuvuutta aiheuttava, addiktiivinen, addiktoiva (fi)
- French: addictif (fr), qui rend accro, qui crée une dépendance, qui entraîne une dépendance
- German: süchtig machend, verführerisch (de)
- Hebrew: ממכר (m'makér)
- Italian: che causa dipendenza, che dà dipendenza
- Japanese: 中毒性の (ちゅうどくせいの, chūdokusei no), 常習的な (じょうしゅうてき, jōshūteki na)
- Maori: whakawara
- Polish: uzależniający m, powodujący uzależnienie
- Portuguese: viciante, viciador m, que causa dependência
- Romanian: dependent (ro), adictiv m
- Russian: затя́гивающий (ru) (zatjágivajuščij), аддикти́вный (ru) (addiktívnyj)
- Slovene: zasvojljiv
- Spanish: adictivo (es), que crea dependencia, que produce dependencia, que crea adicción, enviciador m
- Swedish: beroendeframkallande (sv), vanebildande
- Thai: เสพติด (sèp dtìt)
- Turkish: alışkanlık yapan
- Volapük: ludivodik
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Noun
addictive (plural addictives)
- A drug that causes an addiction.
- Anything that is very habit-forming.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
addictive
- feminine singular of addictif