addictive

1. 1.

   causing or characterized by addiction

   “addictive drugs”

   “addictive behavior”

   Synonymshabit-forming

   Antonymsnonaddictive

Questions about addictive

What does addictive mean?

addictive means "causing or characterized by addiction".

How many syllables are in addictive?

addictive has 3 syllables: ad-dic-tive. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /əˈdɪktɪv/.

What is another word for addictive?

Close synonyms include habit-forming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of addictive?

The recorded antonyms are nonaddictive.

Is addictive a common word?

addictive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with addictive?

2 words rhyme with addictive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.