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addictive
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. causing or characterized by addiction; "addictive drugs"; "addictive behavior" [syn: habit-forming ] [ant: nonaddictive ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming. 2 Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. n. 1 A drug that causes an addiction. 2 Anything that is very habit-forming.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ We also have a good explanation of why children continue to smoke: cigarettes are highly addictive . ▪ And morphine from opium is illegally converted to the highly addictive drug. heroin, widely abused ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1815, a word in chemistry and medicine; 1939 in the narcotics sense, from addict (v.) + -ive . Related: Addictively ; addictiveness .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Addictive refers to things characterized by, or causing, addiction. Addictive may also refer to: Addictive (Australian band) , an Australian thrash metal band Addictive (British band) , a pop/dance duo "Addictive" (song) , a song by Truth Hurts Addictive ...
Usage examples of addictive.
Consequently, an addictive personality would mean that I wanted to become addicted, not just to nicotine, but to heroin and any other addictive substance.
Although nicotine is the most powerful addictive drug known to mankind, it only relates to the speed in which it traps its victims.
After all, everyone knows that smoking is highly addictive, expensive and the No.
After all, we all know how addictive nicotine is and what massive willpower it takes to stop.
Amazingly this revelation hits thousands of smokers who believed they had addictive personalities until they tried Easyway.
Over a century after coca was taxed by the clergy, we still find reports of its satanic influences, and it is just such reports that, blindly cited by later commentators, would help to propagate the myth of coca chewing as a dangerous, addictive habit - a myth that survives to this day.
It was the same argument Freud would use to exonerate himself from blame for the arrival of this new addictive substance.
However, he argued, it was addictive only when injected, and he had never suggested that anyone do this.
He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.
As expected, they contained two main components: harmless colourants or flavourings designed to make them look or taste good, and doses of addictive narcotics.
Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.
Japanese had discovered, as had the British many years before them, that mainland China constituted an almost unlimited market for addictive drugs.
Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.
Cocaine has a high addictive potential because of the speed with which it blocks the dopamine transporters.
This is the reason why nicotine patches are not addictive while cigarettes, which contain the same quantity of nicotine, are.