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habit-forming

[ hab-it-fawr-ming ]

adjective

  1. tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence:

    habit-forming drugs.



habit-forming

adjective

  1. (of an activity, indulgence, etc) tending to become a habit or addiction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of habit-forming1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.

Dr. Nick says he asked large pharmaceutical companies to make placebos for Elvis for those pills that might be habit forming.

Freedom from the deleterious action or habit-forming tendencies of the opiates.

So-called non-alcoholic bottled beverages often contain alcohol or a habit-forming drug and are usually colored with aniline.

All habit-forming involves the beginning of an intellectual specialization which if unchecked ends in thoughtless action.

Congress has just passed a bill aiming to regulate the traffic in habit-forming drugs.

The major part of the habit-forming drugs used in the United States is consumed by the under-world.

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