Legal Definition and Related Resources of Addicted
Meaning of Addicted
Synonyms of Addicted
adjective
- accustomed
- attached
- fanatic
- given over
- habituated
- imbued with
- in the habit
- indulgent
- obsessed with
- prone to
- rei deditus
- surrendered to
- under the influence of
- wedded to
- Associated Concepts: addicted to alcohol
- addicted to drugs
- addicted to pills
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Grammar
This term is an adjetive.
Etimology of Addicted
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1530s, “delivered over” by judicial sentence (as a debtor to his creditors, a sense from Roman law); past participle adjective from addict (verb). Sense of “dependent” (1560s) is reflexive, “self-addicted,” from the notion of “give over or award (oneself) to someone or some practice;” specialization to narcotics dependency is from c. 1910. Earlier English adjective was simply addict “delivered, devoted” (1520s).
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