Usually means: Tendency to develop regular patterns.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. habit-forming: Merriam-Webster
  2. habit-forming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. habit-forming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. habit-forming, habit-forming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. habit-forming: Vocabulary.com
  6. habit-forming: Wordnik
  7. habit-forming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. habit-forming: Wiktionary
  9. habit-forming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. habit-forming: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. habit-forming: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. habit-forming: Dictionary.com
  13. habit-forming: Rhymezone
  14. habit-forming: FreeDictionary.org
  15. habit-forming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. habit-forming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. habit-forming: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. habit-forming: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (formal, euphemistic) Addictive; likely to cause dependence or recurrence of use.

Similar:
addictive, habituating, habitual, re-addicting, confirmed, accustomable, readdicting, recurring, craveable, hardwired, more...

Opposite:
non-addictive, non-habit-forming, aversive

Types:
addictive, compulsive, dependence-forming, more...

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Similar:
addictive, habituating, habitual, re-addicting, confirmed, accustomable, readdicting, recurring, craveable, hardwired, more...

Opposite:
non-addictive, non-habit-forming, aversive

Types:
addictive, compulsive, dependence-forming, more...



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