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-aholic

-aholic is the alternative form of -holic.

Meaning of -holic

Suffix

-holic

  1. Denotes one who has an addiction to or indulgence in the substance or activity of the stem word.
    • Trump was also a horndog, a braggart, and a social-media-holic—just like voters were.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties
  2. Denotes being addicted to or indulging in the substance or activity of the stem word.

Origin of -aholic

A respelling of -oholic reflecting the reduced pronunciation of the linking vowel.

Questions about -aholic

What is -aholic the alternative form of?
-aholic is the alternative form of -holic.

Words near -aholic in the dictionary

  1. -ages
  2. -agog
  3. -agogue
  4. -agogy
  5. -ahh
  6. -aholic
  7. -aholism
  8. -aire
  9. -aires
  10. -aissance
  11. -al

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -aholic (page history and authors); -holic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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