Definition of: addicted

(ə·dik′tid) adjective
Accustomed; inclined to the pursuit, practice, or taking of anything: addicted to drugs. Synonyms: abandoned, accustomed, attached, devoted, disposed, given, habituated, inclined, predisposed, prone, wedded. One is addicted to that which has been allowed to gain a strong, habitual, and enduring hold upon action, inclination, or involuntary tendency. A person may be accustomed to labor, attached to a profession, devoted to his religion, given to study or to gluttony (in the bad sense). One inclined to luxury may become habituated to poverty. One is wedded to that which has become a second nature, as to science or to art. Prone is used only in a bad sense, and generally of natural tendencies; as, our hearts are prone to evil. Abandoned tells of acquired viciousness to which one has surrendered oneself. Addicted is used in a bad sense; devoted, chiefly in the good sense; as, a mother's devoted affection. Antonyms: averse, disinclined, indisposed, unaccustomed.