addictive

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• /əˈdɪktɪv/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 D IH1 K T IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِدْمَانِيّ (ʔidmāniyy) — tending to cause addiction
• Catalan: addictiu — tending to cause addiction
• Chinese Mandarin: 使人成癮的 /使人成瘾的 (shǐrén chéngyǐn de) — tending to cause addiction
• Czech: návykový — tending to cause addiction
• Dutch: verslavend — tending to cause addiction
• Esperanto: dependiga — tending to cause addiction
• Finnish: riippuvuutta aiheuttava — tending to cause addiction
• Finnish: addiktiivinen — tending to cause addiction
• Finnish: addiktoiva — tending to cause addiction
• French: addictif — tending to cause addiction
• French: qui rend accro — tending to cause addiction
• French: qui crée une dépendance — tending to cause addiction
• French: qui entraîne une dépendance — tending to cause addiction
• German: süchtig machend — tending to cause addiction
• German: verführerisch — tending to cause addiction
• Hebrew: ממכר (m'makér) — tending to cause addiction
• Italian: che causa dipendenza — tending to cause addiction
• Italian: che dà dipendenza — tending to cause addiction
• Japanese: 中毒性の (chūdokusei no) — tending to cause addiction
• Japanese: 常習的な (jōshūteki na) — tending to cause addiction
• Māori: whakawara — tending to cause addiction
• Polish: uzależniający — tending to cause addiction
• Polish: powodujący uzależnienie — tending to cause addiction
• Portuguese: viciante — tending to cause addiction
• Portuguese: viciador — tending to cause addiction
• Portuguese: que causa dependência — tending to cause addiction
• Romanian: dependent — tending to cause addiction
• Romanian: adictiv — tending to cause addiction
• Russian: затя́гивающий (zatjágivajuščij) — tending to cause addiction
• Russian: аддикти́вный (addiktívnyj) — tending to cause addiction
• Slovene: zasvojljiv — tending to cause addiction
• Spanish: adictivo — tending to cause addiction
• Spanish: que crea dependencia — tending to cause addiction
• Spanish: que produce dependencia — tending to cause addiction
• Spanish: que crea adicción — tending to cause addiction
• Spanish: enviciador — tending to cause addiction
• Swedish: beroendeframkallande — tending to cause addiction
• Swedish: vanebildande — tending to cause addiction
• Thai: เสพติด (sèp dtìt) — tending to cause addiction
• Turkish: alışkanlık yapan — tending to cause addiction
• Volapük: ludivodik — tending to cause addiction
• Chinese Mandarin: 使人著迷的 — enjoyable
• Chinese Mandarin: 使人着迷的 (shǐrén zháomí de) — enjoyable
• Finnish: koukuttava — enjoyable
• Russian: затя́гивающий (zatjágivajuščij) — enjoyable
• Russian: захва́тывающий (zaxvátyvajuščij) — enjoyable
• Slovene: zasvojljiv — enjoyable
• Chinese Mandarin: 容易著迷的 — susceptible to addiction
• Chinese Mandarin: 容易着迷的 (róngyì zháomí de) — susceptible to addiction
• Chinese Mandarin: 容易上癮的 /容易上瘾的 (róngyì shàngyǐn de) — susceptible to addiction
• Finnish: riippuvuuteen taipuvainen — susceptible to addiction
• Finnish: addiktoituva — susceptible to addiction
• Russian: скло́нный к привыка́нию (sklónnyj k privykániju) — susceptible to addiction