addict

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    freak, junkie, junky, nut,
  • (n) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

Verbs

  • (v) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) hook,

Synonyms

hook freak junkie junky nut

Words of close approximity

addicted addiction addictive