addictive

Meanings

Adjective

• Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
• Enjoyable.
• Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• habit-forming

Opposite words

• nonaddictive

Origin

• 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.