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obsessive
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Word definitions for obsessive in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
obsessional \obsessional\ obsessive \obsessive\adj. Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea. Syn: compulsive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1911, from obsess + -ive . Related: Obsessively . Obsessive-compulsive is attested from 1927.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB almost ▪ The portrait is hyper-real, with almost obsessive attention to surface, to clothing. ▪ But we reckoned without the persistence and almost obsessive scheming of Airey Neave. ▪ This tendency was reinforced ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Prone to cause obsession 2 Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others. 3 excessive, as results from obsession. n. A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession
Usage examples of obsessive.
Gradus is discursively seduced in a way that makes the seeming distinction between him and Kinbote, as well as that between the baroque and the simple, the cultured and the barbarous, the homosexual and the heterosexual, and the roughly masculine and the decadently effeminized, appear to be nothing more than the product of an obsessive and pedantic imagination which insists on impressing its own absurdly reductive schema on a disorderly world that consistently eludes it.
Transitional fetishism is often characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with things feminine, particularly in seeing what one looks like when dressed as a woman.
While there was no disputing her incredible talents as a scientist, Holden found her professional intensity and single-mindedness obsessive.
We had been sixties children, coddled first, then spoiled, and finally stranded by the neap tide of narcissism, left to rot with our obsessive quests for personal fulfillment.
Her satisfaction made her feel guilty, because her private war with Rayat and Neville was becoming obsessive.
And if the grotesquely brutal manner in which it killed the prey seemed obsessive, Dorma suspected that it was not.
Pythian Ode, Aphrodite gives the wryneck to Jason as the magical means to seduce Medea, and with it he binds the princess to him through her obsessive love.
His sole interest lay in getting one Captain Alicia DeVries not merely ambulatory but fully reconditioned, and his was clearly an obsessive personality.
Its most visible sign is not so much the use of the Czech language as it is a quite singular architectonic feature: the nearly obsessive recurrence of the number seven.
Today he was particularly obsessive, wearing a futuretech cleansuit over his polyester knit gym teacher shirt and beltless slacks.
Her chief and obsessive concern was to prevent Ivan leaving his fortune and his brewery to my mother and not to herself.
In the corner, half-hidden by the washing Mrs Spandrel had hung in front of the fireplace, stood one of the waywisers he and his father had pushed round the streets of London, calculating distances to an obsessive nicety.
An obsessive and thwarted cyberneticist with a taste for extreme modification.
In the fits cited above, Dostoyevsky noted with precision the disturbing symptoms characteristic of the obsessive cloudy state after the fit.
In its globby piled-on redness, it was a scarlet letter embroidered by an obsessive compulsive.