What is the antonym of addictive?

What is the opposite of addictive?
boringdrab
tediousuninteresting
repulsiveunexciting
unstimulatinglacklustreUK
tiresomedreary

What do you mean by addictive disorder?

Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine also are considered drugs.

What can I say instead of addicted?

INSTEAD SAY: Substance use disorder (SUD), alcohol and drug use disorder, active addiction, problem use, non-medical use, unhealthy use, risky use, harmful use; person struggling with substance use, person with substance use disorder, person who suffers/suffered from addiction.

What is the synonym of obsession?

fixation. hang-up (informal) infatuation. mania. phobia.

What is addictive in a sentence?

How to use Addictive in a sentence. His mouth was hot, his flavor as addictive as his blood. I must say the game can become rather addictive! Strangely addictive fried pickles are a house specialty.

Which is the closest antonym for the word alluring?

  • boring,
  • tiring,
  • wearying.

Is addictiveness a word?

Meaning of addictiveness in English. the fact that you cannot stop taking a drug, doing an activity, etc. once you have started it: Were the tobacco companies guilty of lying to the public about the addictiveness of smoking?

Is saying addicting wrong?

A: Well actually there is no difference. They’re both adjectives that mean “causing or likely to cause someone to become addicted” – to a substance or activity. However, one is more legitimate than the other.

What is the difference between addictive and addicting?

Addictive is an adjective that means likely to cause physiological dependence. Addicting is a present participle of the verb addict. While either works as an adjective, addictive is the better choice.

Is addicting same as addictive?

Addictive means causing or tending to cause addiction. The present-participle adjective addicting is technically synonymous with addictive, but there’s no reason to use addicting when addictive is a perfectly functional and even versatile word.

Is Adict a word?

n. 1. one who is addicted to a substance, activity, or habit. 2. to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.

When was the word addicting first used?

As for “addicting,” it first showed up in print in a 1932 issue of Science News-Letter (now called Science News): “Morphine, for instance, is strongly addicting.” The OED says it means the same as “addictive.”

Where did the word addiction come from?

The word “addiction” is derived from a Latin term for “enslaved by” or “bound to.” Anyone who has struggled to overcome an addiction—or has tried to help someone else to do so—understands why.