addicting
/əˈdɪktɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.82 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys."
- "similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting."
- "When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug"
- "Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine"
- "That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug."
- "For though in his Nature there is a Tendency to Rational Pleasures, yet this he may, and very frequently does, stifle and extinguish by addicting himself wholly to the Delights and Gratifications of his Sense"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Latin addīcō Latin addictusbor. English addict English -ing English addicting From addict + -ing.
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
more addicting (comparative)
most addicting (superlative)