- addicted (to something)
unable to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful 上瘾;成瘾;有瘾 to become addicted to drugs/gambling/social media 对毒品/赌博/社交媒体上瘾 It did not take James very long to get addicted. 詹姆斯没多久就上瘾了。 She had become addicted to tranquillizers. 她吃镇静剂已经上瘾了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- get
- …
- totally
- hopelessly
- to
More Like This Adjectives that do not come before a nounAdjectives that do not come before a nounWord Originmid 16th cent.: from the obsolete adjective addict ‘bound or devoted (to someone)’, from Latin addict- ‘assigned’, from the verb addicere, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘say’.