Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing or tending to cause addiction.
- adjective Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
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- adjective Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
- adjective Characterized by or
susceptible to addiction. - noun A drug that causes an addiction.
- noun Anything that is very habit-forming.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing or characterized by addiction
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, as you said, if you remove the term addictive from the equation, would people change their minds about the pill?
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I have never heard the term addictive used to describe a non-harmful context.
GamePolitics News 2009
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I have never heard the term addictive used to describe a non-harmful context.
GamePolitics News 2009
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In yoga, we call addictive behavior "samskara," or "ruts", and the more you practice the destructive ones, the more entrenched they will become.
Sadie Nardini: Don't Be Like Mike: Bust Your Inner Addict and Be Free! 2009
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Marijuana use is currently the leading cause of treatment need for those abusing or dependent on illegal drugs, is the second leading reason for drug-induced emergency room episodes, and has surpassed alcohol for young people in addictive risk and impact on dependency requiring treatment.
On the Legalization — or Not — of Marijuana - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Marijuana use is currently the leading cause of treatment need for those abusing or dependent on illegal drugs, is the second leading reason for drug-induced emergency room episodes, and has surpassed alcohol for young people in addictive risk and impact on dependency requiring treatment.
On the Legalization — or Not — of Marijuana - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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A twelve-year-old girl was more blunt: "The word addictive comes to mind."
"People are very cagey about saying anything that might give breastfeeding a bad name." Ann Althouse 2009
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A reasonable inference from Philip Morris's acknowledgment that the nicotine in cigarettes makes smoking addictive is that its product was consciously designed to induce cigarette dependency in the ordinary smoker, regardless whether any individual smoker becomes addicted to cigarettes.
Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Bars Big Tobacco Defense: Can't Blame the Smoker 2006
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All concur that smokeless tobacco products contain addictive levels of nicotine, many carcinogens, heavy metals, and other toxins, though recognizing that the levels of nicotine and toxins vary widely across products.
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The cigarettes use “trionic” filters with three layers, each of which removes a different set of toxic compounds, while still allowing nicotine — the main addictive element in tobacco — to enter the lungs.
Medpundit 2005
haguremetaru commented on the word addictive
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December 10, 2006
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May 10, 2012