addicted
adjective
- state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈdɪktɪd/
adj
- Having a biochemical addiction.
- Devoted to or obsessed with something.
“[…] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of addict