Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an addictive manner.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word addictively.

Examples

  • If Glee had been on TV when I was growing up, I would have watched it addictively.

    Laura Munson: Glee: Where Have You Been All My Life? Laura Munson 2011

  • If Glee had been on TV when I was growing up, I would have watched it addictively.

    Laura Munson: Glee: Where Have You Been All My Life? Laura Munson 2011

  • I found this fascinating, because my own experience of a lot of minimalist music (especially Feldman, who's addictively good at it) is almost the opposite: I sense things happening more acutely because the events 'relationship to a steady passage of time gets dissolved.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • If Glee had been on TV when I was growing up, I would have watched it addictively.

    Laura Munson: Glee: Where Have You Been All My Life? Laura Munson 2011

  • More rounds of drinks were ordered, and some strange little snack that was deliciously and addictively salty.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • I found this fascinating, because my own experience of a lot of minimalist music (especially Feldman, who's addictively good at it) is almost the opposite: I sense things happening more acutely because the events 'relationship to a steady passage of time gets dissolved.

    Textual response Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • More rounds of drinks were ordered, and some strange little snack that was deliciously and addictively salty.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • ACME agents or westward-ho death-by-dysentery: We're not quite sure which is more addictively V.I.L.E.

    GAME ANIMATION: Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego to make FACEBOOK debuts Michael Cavna 2011

  • But it is a very sumptuous setting for a drama that has proved addictively entertaining.

    A Victorian fantasy, in stone Philip Kennicott 2011

  • It must be so boring, laments the modern Sherlock as he plies his deductive trade, texting and googling addictively.

    Roush Review: A Contemporary Sherlock 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.