serpent.
addict, n.1. Inf.fiend, Inf.hound, SI.freak, SI. nut, SI.demon, SI.bug; drug addict, drug abuser, drug user, Inf.user, Inf.junkie, SI.hophead, Si.
dopefiend, SI.dopenick, SI.doper, SI.mainliner, SI.druggie, SI. drughead; SI.head, SI.pothead; SI.pill popper, SI. pillhead, SI.speed freak; SI.tripper, SI.acid head; alcoholic, drunkard, drunk, dipsomaniac; chain smoker; workaholic.
-v. 2. give over to, give up to, submit to, surrender to; indulge in, contact orfall into a habit.
addicted, adj.devoted to, dedicated to, given to, given over to, prone to, in the habit of; dependent on, drug-dependent, Inf.hooked, Inf.strung-out, SI. spaced-out.
addiction, n.dependence, drug dependence, physical dependence, psychological dependence, craving, drug addiction; (of narcotics)
habit, SI.monkey; alcoholism, dipsomania; habitual smoking, chain smoking, tobacco ornicotine addiction; habituation, indulgence, immersion; surrender, enslavement, subjugation.
addition, n.1. joining, uniting, combining; adding, tacking on, attaching, annexing, appending.
2. summation, totaling, adding up, counting up, enumerating; computation, calculation, reckoning.
3. increase, increment, accretion, accession, enlargement, augmentation; extension, expansion, continuation, prolongation.
4. additament, superaddition, affix, attachment, annexation; supplement, appendix, codicil, suffix, postscript, addendum, appendage, tailpiece; adjunct, appurtenance, accessory; insertion, interpolation, interjection, interposition.
5. U.S.
annex, wing, ell.
6. in addition as well, besides, moreover, additionally, over and above.
additional, adj.1. supplementary, supplemental, additory, additamentary; extra, spare, fresh, new, reserved; further, other, more, over and above, superad-ditional.
2. added, appended, attached, annexed; augmented, increased, raised.
addle, v. 1. baffle, confuse, mystify, U.S. Inf. buffalo, pose, SI.cross up; muddle, obfuscate, befog; perplex, bewilder, nonplus, puzzle; stupefy, shock, disarm, discompose, Inf.discombobulate; disconcert, abash, embarrass, mortify, discomfit; disorient, unhinge, unbalance, throw off balance; upset, fluster, flutter, rattle, distract.
2. rot, decay, putrefy; go bad, sour, turn; mold, mildew, spoil, decompose, disintegrate, crumble; corrupt, pervert, contaminate, taint; foul, befoul, soil, sully, blacken, smudge, stain.
addlepated, adj.1. muddled, muddleheaded, addleheaded, addlebrained; dull, inexpressive, expressionless, stupid, Inf.dumb, Inf.dopey, empty-headed, Inf.fatheaded; dull-witted, SI.dimwitted, slow-witted, half-witted, witless, unwitty; unthinking, unreasoning, incogitant, thoughtless; mindless, brainless, fatuitous, slow; dense, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed, obtuse, stolid, oafish, cloddish, lumpish, blunt; blockheaded, dunderheaded, noodleheaded, boneheaded, thickskulled, blockish, doltish; weak-minded, simple, simple-minded, birdbrained, feeble-minded; harebrained, giddy, mercurial, reckless; absent-minded, scatterbrained, confused, bemused; featherheaded, featherbrained, rattleheaded, rattlebrained, light-minded, light-headed; empty, void, vacant, vacuous, blank, unoccupied; vapid, insipid, banal, bland.
2. absurd, silly, inane, pointless, fatuous, foolish; nonsensical, senseless, tom-foolish, SI.cockeyed, Scot. and North Eng.
glaikit; poppycockish, SI.cockamamie, amphigoric; ridiculous, laughable, risible, derisible, ludicrous, SI.for the birds; asinine, anserine, idiotic, Inf.moronic, imbecilic; childish, puerile, immature; crazy, crazed, Scot.
doiled, SI.kooky, Inf.half-baked, mad; daft, Inf.daffy, crackbrained, Inf.nutty; All Slang,
balmy, dippy, batty, cuckoo, buggy, screwy, wacky, goofy, loony.