Synonyms of the word addict


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addict

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

accustom

  • v. (intransitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. [+ to…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
  • n. (obsolete) Custom.

enthusiast

  • n. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.
  • n. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

freak

  • n. A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
  • n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
  • n. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
  • n. Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
  • n. A hippie.
  • n. A drug addict.
  • n. (of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity,…
  • n. (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development;…
  • n. An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
  • n. (informal, sometimes affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual.
  • v. (transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.
  • v. (transitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug.
  • v. (transitive) To streak; to variegate.
  • v. (intransitive) To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational…
  • v. (intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
  • adj. strange, weird.

habituate

  • v. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
  • v. To settle as an inhabitant.

hook

  • n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
  • n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
  • n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  • n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
  • n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  • n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
  • n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  • n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
  • n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  • n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  • n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
  • n. (baseball) A curveball.
  • n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
  • n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
  • n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
  • n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
  • n. (typography, rare) A háček.
  • n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
  • n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
  • n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
  • n. A snare; a trap.
  • n. A field sown two years in succession.
  • n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  • n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
  • v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
  • v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  • v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  • v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  • v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
  • v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
  • v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
  • v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
  • v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
  • v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
  • v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
  • v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
  • v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  • v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
  • v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

junkie

  • n. (slang, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
  • n. (by extension) An enthusiast of something.

junky

  • adj. Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.
  • n. (slang, pejorative) Alternative spelling of junkie.

nut

  • n. A hard-shelled seed.
  • n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
  • n. (slang) A crazy person.
  • n. (slang) The head.
  • n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  • n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  • n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
  • n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
  • n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  • n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
  • n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
  • n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
  • n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
  • n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
  • n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
  • n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
  • n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  • v. (slang) To ejaculate.
  • interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

partisan

  • n. An adherent to a party or faction.
  • n. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  • n. A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways…
  • n. (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an…
  • adj. Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
  • adj. Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable…
  • adj. Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
  • n. (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in…
  • n. (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

partizan

  • n. Alternative spelling of partisan.
  • n. (obsolete) A weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade,…

user

  • n. One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.
  • n. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
  • n. (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received…
  • n. (pejorative) An exploiter, an abusive user (a person who uses something or someone unfairly, selfishly…

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