Associations to the word «Addict»

Wiktionary

ADDICT, noun. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
ADDICT, noun. An adherent or fan (of something)
ADDICT, verb. To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug
ADDICT, verb. To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
ADDICT, verb. (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Dictionary definition

ADDICT, noun. 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".
ADDICT, noun. Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms.
ADDICT, verb. To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats