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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive substance.
  2. adj. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction: an addictive personality.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
  2. adj. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
  3. n. A drug that causes an addiction.
  4. n. Anything that is very habit-forming.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing or characterized by addiction

Etymologies

  1. 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. (Wiktionary)

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