adjective · rare

addictive

addictive · more addictive · most addictive

затягивающий, захватывающий, склонный к привыканию, аддиктивный

verführerisch, süchtig machend

Causing or tending to cause addictionCausing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.

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/əˈdɪktɪv/

» Caffeine is addictive.

Koffein macht süchtig.

Кофеин вызывает привыкание.

Кофеїн викликає звикання.

Meaning

3 senses

Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
These are addictive drugs.
süchtig machend, verführerisch
затя́гивающийzatjágivajuščij, аддикти́вныйaddiktívnyj
causing or characterized by addiction
Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
затя́гивающийzatjágivajuščij, захва́тывающийzaxvátyvajuščij
Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
He has an addictive personality.
скло́нный к привыка́ниюsklónnyj k privykániju

Examples

55 sentences

Caffeine is addictive.
Кофеїн викликає звикання.
ruКофеин вызывает привыкание.
deKoffein macht süchtig.
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Is nicotine as addictive as heroin?
ruНикотин вызывает такое же привыкание, что и героин?
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Do you think video games are addictive?
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What's the most addictive game you've ever played?
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Crack is very addictive.
ruКрэк вызывает сильное привыкание.
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Translations

8 languages

Русский

By meaning 3

tending to cause addiction:

enjoyable:

susceptible to addiction:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

tending to cause addiction:

Origin

First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opi

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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