obsessive
IPA: ʌbsˈɛsɪv
noun
- A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession.
adjective
- Prone to cause obsession.
- Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
- Excessive, as results from obsession.
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Examples of "obsessive" in Sentences
- GROSS: Well, obsessive is going to extremes and medium is not.
- Mr. ROTH: Oh, obsessive is a word everybody uses, but maniacal?
- I only wish I could be this encyclopedic — or is the word obsessive.
- The term obsessive compulsive refers to a wide range of different behaviors.
- Noticing when satisfying a craving passes from utilitarian to obsessive is at the crux of psychological health.
- But he also concludes that Obama struggles with what he calls "obsessive bipartisan disorder": a deep-seated need to unify the people around him, which stems from his childhood marred by broken families, from men who were not fathers, and from his need to make sense of being biracial while being raised by white grandparents.
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