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WordBand 6–7Toofey picks
addictive
/əˈdɪktɪv/
adjective
Making you want to do something again and again.
- “Some games are designed to be addictive.”Toofey
- “Drugs are addictive and one loses their freedom.”Tatoeba
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))