addictive

adj

/əˈdɪktɪv/

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.

Definitions

1
Causing or tending to cause addiction
Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
- These are addictive drugs.
2
Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
- There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive […]
3
Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
- He has an addictive personality.
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1. A drug that causes an addiction.
2. Anything that is very habit-forming.

The neighborhood

synonymhabit-forming
synonymmoreish
antonymnonaddictive
neighboraddict
neighboraddicted
neighboraddicting
neighboraddiction

Derived

addictively, addictiveness, addictive personality, addictivity, antiaddictive, subaddictive, unaddictive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for addictive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA