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addictive

/əˈdɪktɪv/

addictive adjective: causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.

Adjective

addictive (comparative more addictive, superlative most addictive)

  1. Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
    • These are addictive drugs.
  2. Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
    • There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive […]1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
  3. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
    • He has an addictive personality.

Noun

addictive (plural addictives)

  1. A drug that causes an addiction.
  2. Anything that is very habit-forming.

addictive meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Tagalog

addictive in Urdu

لت آور, نشہ آور

addictive in Telugu

వ్యసనపరుడైన, వ్యసనపరుడైనది

addictive in Malayalam

compulsive, habit-forming, moreish
ശീലമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, അടിമയാക്കുന്ന, ശീലത്തിന് അടിമയാക്കുന്ന, മാറാശീലമാക്കുന്ന, പ്രേരിപ്പക്കുന്ന, ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ നിർബ്ബന്ധിതമാക്കുന്ന

addictive in Tagalog

tending to cause addiction
nakaaadik
enjoyable
nakaaadik
More languagesFewer languages
addictive in Arabic
إِدْمَانِيّ ʔidmāniyy
addictive in Thai
เสพติด sèp dtìt

Examples of addictive in a sentence

  • The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.
  • People who have addictive personalities are advised to avoid caffeine, alcohol and other drugs.
  • Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

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Synonyms of addictive

Antonyms

Forms of addictive

Adjective
comparativemore addictive
superlativemost addictive
Noun
pluraladdictives

Origin of addictive

First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opium. There is an isolated instance from 1779, with reference to tobacco.

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Questions about addictive

What does addictive mean?
Addictive means causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
What is addictive in Urdu?
Addictive in Urdu is لت آور, نشہ آور. See Addictive meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is addictive?
Addictive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce addictive?
Addictive is pronounced /əˈdɪktɪv/.

Words near addictive in the dictionary

  1. addictionlike
  2. addictionologist
  3. addictionologists
  4. addictionology
  5. addictions
  6. addictive
  7. addictive personalities
  8. addictive personality
  9. addictively
  10. addictiveness
  11. addictives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: addictive (page history and authors); addictive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); addictive (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); addictive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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