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View usage for: (hʊkt) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]If you describe something as hooked, you mean that it is shaped like a hook. He was thin and tall, with a hooked nose. ...hooked claws. Synonyms: bent, curved, beaked, aquiline More Synonyms of hooked 2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]If you are hooked on something, you enjoy it so much that it takes up a lot of your interest and attention. [informal] Many of the leaders have become hooked on power and money. [+ on] Open this book and read a few pages and you will be hooked. Synonyms: obsessed, addicted, taken, devoted More Synonyms of hooked 3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]If you are hooked on a drug, you are addicted to it. [informal] He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol. [+ on] Synonyms: addicted, dependent, using [informal], having a habit More Synonyms of hooked hooked in British English (hʊkt) adjective2. having a hook or hooks 4. a slang word for married 5. slang addicted to a drug 6. (often foll by on) obsessed (with) Derived forms hookedness (ˈhʊkɪdnɪs) noun hooked in American English (hʊkt) adjective2. having a hook or hooks 3. US made with a hook a hooked rug 4. US, Slanga. addicted as to the use of a drug often with on b. preoccupied or obsessed with a person, fad, etc. often with on Examples of 'hooked' in a sentencehooked Nicotine is what gets you hooked on smoking and also what makes it so pleasurable.People get hooked on it.Nicotine is what gets smokers hooked, but it is all the other components in tobacco that cause the major health harms.Try to help her see why she gets hooked like this.Stand in front of them for a few moments and see how quickly you get hooked.There are also traces of red glass in the corner of the eyes closest to the hooked nose.It is keen to get us hooked on its drama series but obviously has total disregard for viewers!It's possible to get hooked on prescription drugs and painkillers almost the world over.You obviously love cinema - when did you become hooked on it?The singer has also become hooked on builder's tea.A fellow came to the wicket with shoulders like a barn door and a big hooked nose.His brows were bushy, meeting above his large hooked nose to make a straight line across his face.Their parents are large white and grey gulls, and have a hooked yellow beak with a red spot on it.As a doctor could find himself hooked on the drugs he administers, introspection is morphine for a songwriter like me.He got hooked on cocaine.They also have a hooked beak, and look very sinister when perched on top of a hedgerow tree looking around them for prey.And then I got my fourth with a hooked shot.The feet, not the hooked beak, are the weapons. British English: hooked ADJECTIVE If you describe something as hooked, you mean that it is shaped like a hook. He was thin and tall, with a hooked nose. - American English: hooked
- Brazilian Portuguese: em forma de gancho
- Chinese: 钩状的
- European Spanish: con forma de gancho
- French: crochu
- German: gebogen
- Italian: uncinato
- Japanese: かぎ状の
- Korean: 갈고리 모양의
- European Portuguese: em forma de gancho
- Latin American Spanish: con forma de gancho
Definition bent like a hook He was tall and thin, with a hooked nose. Synonyms bent beaked aquiline beaky hook-shaped hamate (rare) hooklike falcate (biology) unciform (anatomy) uncinate (biology) Definition obsessed with (informal) Open this book and read a few pages and you will be hooked. Synonyms obsessed taken devoted turned on (slang) enamoured Definition addicted (to) (informal) She spent a number of years hooked on amphetamine. Synonyms dependent using (informal) having a habit Additional synonymsSynonyms hooked, pointed, sharp, curvedthe curved lines of the chairs Synonyms bent, rounded, sweeping, twisted, bowed, arched, arced, humped, serpentine, sinuous, twisty |