Synonyms for addict
ˈæd ɪkt; əˈdɪktad·dict

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1. addictverb

   Synonyms:
   dedicate, hooked, adapt, devote, consecrate, fit

2. addictverb

   A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug

   Synonyms:
   fit, dedicate, consecrate, adapt, hooked, devote, habitue, aficionado, junkie, devotee, fan, adherent, enthusiast, slave

3. addictverb

   An adherent or fan (of something)

   Synonyms:
   fit, adapt, devote, consecrate, dedicate, hooked, habitue, devotee, enthusiast, adherent, fan, aficionado, junkie, slave

4. addictverb

   To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

   Synonyms:
   devote, hooked, dedicate, consecrate, adapt, fit

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1. addict, nut, freak, junkie, junkynoun

   someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

   "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"

   Synonyms:
   bollock, testis, junkie, lusus naturae, monster, screwball, nut, junky, monstrosity, egg, fruitcake, en, testicle, ball, orchis, crank, drug addict, nut case, crackpot, ballock, freak

2. addictverb

   someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

   Synonyms:
   freak, junkie, junky, nut

3. addict, hookverb

   to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

   Synonyms:
   fleece, thieve, filch, cabbage, surcharge, sneak, snare, accost, snarf, swipe, hook, pluck, nobble, pilfer, crochet, overcharge, pinch, soak, lift, gazump, cop, rob, glom, solicit, purloin, snitch, plume, knock off, abstract

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1. • Accustom

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1. junkie

   someone addicted to drugs that will do whatever they can to buy even the smallest amount for a fix

   the heads are out panhandling for their fix early today.

   Submitted by anonymous on May 19, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. addictverb

   Synonyms:
   accustom (commonly in a bad sense), habituate, dedicate, devote, apply (habitually), give, give up

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1. addictverb

   Synonyms:
   habituate, accustom

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1. List of paraphrases for "addict":

   junkie, crackhead

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1. Eric Adams:

   Most people think of an addict as you know, skid row, or homeless living on the street.

2. Chuck Negron:

   I have a 47-year-old daughter, who we’re very close now… But her mother left, took her, I didn’t see her for years, i have a son, Chuckie, whose mother was an addict. I was an addict. And he ended up, of course, being an addict… He ended up in prison, which broke my heart… Now he’s clean and doing well.

3. James Hart:

   It was a slow unveiling of my sexuality that was of course, very difficult for us, and then… I wind up as a crack cocaine addict [in 2002] after having been sober for 21 years. And Carly went through all of that with me. So the unraveling is rather dramatic.

4. Chris Rock:

   This looks like one of the last times I saw Chris alive, i would see him one more time when I did a gig in Chicago. We tried to hang out afterwards, but … I don’t know if you’ve ever really hung out with an addict. Towards the end, anything that isn’t the drug is a chore.

5. Joanna Lipari:

   Think of how we forgive or redeem the alcoholic or the drug addict, we don't blindly believe they are 'cured,' but we allow the space for their behavior to show they're redeemed.