junkie

junkie

noun

Definition of JUNKIE

1

a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally <heroin junkies wasting their lives>

Synonyms addict, dopehead, druggie (also druggy), fiend, freak [slang], head, hophead [slang], hype [slang], junkie (also junky), stoner, user

Related Words acidhead, cokehead, crackhead, pothead, speed freak; burnout

Antonyms nonaddict, nonuser

2

a person with a strong and habitual liking for something <a television cartoon junkie>

Synonyms addict, aficionado (also afficionado), buff, bug, devotee, enthusiast, fanatic, fancier, fiend, fool, freak, habitué (also habitue), head, hound, junkie (also junky), lover, maniac, maven (also mavin), nut, sucker

Related Words groupie; admirer, amateur, collector, connoisseur, dilettante; authority, expert; adherent, convert, cultist, disciple, follower, hanger-on, votary; advocate, apostle, backer, champion, evangelist, exponent, friend, patron, promoter, proponent, supporter; partisan (also partizan), zealot; booster, rooter, well-wisher; faddist

Near Antonyms nonadmirer; belittler, carper, critic, detractor

Antonyms nonfan

Variants of JUNKIE

junkie also junky