as in addicting
causing or relating to a physiological need for certain drugs
an addictive painkiller
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Recent Examples of addictive
Silicon Valley won’t save kids from products designed to be addictive, so perhaps the goal should be to make social media as uncool for kids as cigarettes became in the ’90s and 2000s.
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
This addictive snack is made with the producer’s oyster mushrooms and those meaty fungi manage to pull off a chewy texture that comes close to the original beef jerky.
—Leslie Kelly, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Jonathan Leijonhufvud/Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Inside my oceanside villa, I was immediately drawn to the sea foam green accents and gray textured dressers that stored the addictive Okinawan pineapple cookies and rums produced from the nearby sugarcane fields.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Fighting tuna is addictive, though, and Allen wasn’t about to throw in his bait towel.
—Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2025
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
This addictive snack is made with the producer’s oyster mushrooms and those meaty fungi manage to pull off a chewy texture that comes close to the original beef jerky.
—Leslie Kelly, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Jonathan Leijonhufvud/Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Inside my oceanside villa, I was immediately drawn to the sea foam green accents and gray textured dressers that stored the addictive Okinawan pineapple cookies and rums produced from the nearby sugarcane fields.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Fighting tuna is addictive, though, and Allen wasn’t about to throw in his bait towel.
—Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for addictive
addicting
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Penn Badgley's Joe Goldberg will no longer haunt our TV screens with his salacious — yet addicting — crimes as his reign as everyone's favorite serial killer (ew?) is officially coming to an end in season 5.—
Rebecca Aizin,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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This show is like Grey’s Anatomy meets Bravo’s Below Deck: ridiculous, dramatic, and totally addicting.—
Annabel Gutterman,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Addictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/addictive. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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