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Definition of hooked :
1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
2. of Hook
3. Provided with a hook or hooks.
Synonyms:
qualified, pendant, on, subordinate, addicted, using, drug-addicted, aquiline, pendent, subject, dependant, strung-out, hooklike, anywhere, dependent
curved (part of speech: verb)
crooked, bent, rounded, hanging, serpentine, sagging, swept, cambered, bowed, curved, hanged, swerved, arched, parabolic, sagged
Usage examples:
- If every term of a collection can be hooked on to a number, and all the finite numbers are used once, and only once, in the process, then our collection must have just as many terms as there are finite numbers. - "Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays", Bertrand Russell.
- Little or nothing has been seen of them, unless some small creatures of a quarter of a pound, extraordinarily silvery, and more often in the air than in the water when hooked, are these children of the remote West. - "Angling Sketches", Andrew Lang.
- She hooked her left arm on his, put her hand on the sill and leaped. - "The Spartan Twins", Lucy (Fitch) Perkins.