Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
These are addictive drugs.
Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive […]
Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
He has an addictive personality.
A drug that causes an addiction.
Anything that is very habit-forming.
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.
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