Usually means: Compulsively needing something despite consequences.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word addictive:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. addictive: Merriam-Webster
  2. addictive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. addictive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. addictive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. addictive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Addictive, addictive: Wordnik
  7. addictive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. addictive: Wiktionary
  9. addictive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. addictive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. addictive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. addictive: Dictionary.com
  13. addictive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Addictive (Australian band), Addictive (English duo), Addictive (band), Addictive (disambiguation), Addictive (song), Addictive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. addictive: Rhymezone
  16. addictive: FreeDictionary.org
  17. addictive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. addictive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. addictive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. addictive: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. addictive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. addictive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. addictive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. addictive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. addictive: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. addictive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
adjective:  Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
adjective:  Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
noun:  A drug that causes an addiction.
noun:  Anything that is very habit-forming.

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