'addict' definitions:
Definition of 'addict'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky]
noun
Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms
verb
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook]
Synonyms of 'addict'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acidhead,
- address,
- adherent,
- adjust,
- admirer,
- aficionado,
- alcoholic,
- apply,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bias,
- buff,
- bug,
- candidate,
- chain smoker,
- cocaine sniffer,
- cokie,
- collector,
- coveter,
- cubehead,
- demon,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dipsomaniac,
- direct,
- dispose,
- dope fiend,
- doper,
- drug abuser,
- drug addict,
- drug user,
- drunkard,
- eager beaver,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- faddist,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fancier,
- fiend,
- follower,
- freak,
- glue sniffer,
- great one for,
- groupie,
- habitual,
- habitue,
- hankerer,
- head,
- heavy smoker,
- hobbyist,
- hopeful,
- hophead,
- hound,
- hype,
- incline,
- infatuate,
- junkie,
- lover,
- LSD user,
- marijuana smoker,
- methhead,
- narcotics addict,
- nut,
- pillhead,
- pothead,
- predispose,
- pursuer,
- putterer,
- rhapsodist,
- snowbird,
- solicitant,
- speed freak,
- sucker for,
- suitor,
- supporter,
- take to,
- tripper,
- user,
- visionary,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- zealot