addicted

adjective

ad·​dict·​ed ə-ˈdik-təd 

: having an addiction:

a

: exhibiting a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity

addicted to heroin/alcohol/gambling

addicted smokers

b

: strongly inclined to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly

I'm addicted to great tomatoes, so I started two French varieties from seed and gave fully a third of my garden to them.

—Chris Jerome

Like Sherlock Holmes, Maigret is perceived by addicted readers as a historical figure rather than a creature of fiction …

—Mavis Gallant

Examples of addicted in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The outlet reported that the teenager was a reserved outsider whose father died at a young age and whose mother was addicted to drugs. —Sean Neumann, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024

When Chris Dawley was a high-school freshman, in the nineteen-seventies, in Wisconsin, his twenty-seven-year-old brother, Dave, troubled and addicted to cocaine, was working in Las Vegas. —Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Aggressive marketing of Oxycontin led to millions of people becoming addicted to narcotics. —Peter Ubel, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Reasons for Having a Sugar Addiction Exactly why people might become addicted to sugar is unknown. —Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 21 Sep. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of addict entry 2

First Known Use

1546, in the meaning defined above