Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of obsess.
- adj. Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern; -- used with with.
- adj. influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- adj. influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
Examples
“The next shows us a crazy shut-in obsessed by TV yet discovering romance (this is the second-best tale in the book), followed by another drawn metaphor, about a boy chained to a stone of worries, and then an abused child.”
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“Some people are just to thick or plain obsessed to be reached with rational arguments.”
“Whilst the Australian Government (and Opposition) remain obsessed with regulating the internet, nothing is being proposed or done to increase the affordability of broadband, cost being the main factor that limits the offering of free wireless in Australian cafes.”
“Duncan I dread to think what you might be teaching but rest assurred obsessed is the opposite of my attitude to Duncan Connors.”
“At the same time, the professional investment managers of mutual and pension funds remain obsessed with their own quarterly performance, by which they are judged.”
“Its exploration of the conflict between classes and between "liberated youth" and the repressed older generation might seem to fix the film to the 60s era it to some extent does seek to render, but its very lack of affect and its unostentatious surface (the youth with whom Sandy Dennis's character becomes obsessed is not a blustering radical but for much of the film simply remains silent) lure us in and prevent it from being an obvious period piece.”
“While I am completely in obsessed with Twilight, I’m also obsessed with other fantasy creations, such as the TV show Supernatural.”
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“I’m allowing several posts to languish, while I continue to remain obsessed with all things growing in my yard I promise we’re collectively doing more than watching stuff grow ♥ though that does remain my favorite summertime activity thus far!”
“News at Eleven: The irony of course was that his father, whom Langston Hughes referred to as "Our father who art in Mexico," may have left America but in his mind and values he would always be essentially American, which is to say obsessed with money greed and success.”
“Hundley has been described as obsessed, crazy, jilted but now she ` s giving her side of the story, telling ABC ` s "Good Morning America" she never stalked Phillips and instead claims, "Hey, I ` m the victim here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘obsessed’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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sarahochap1
english 7- summer school
apposite, jubilant, supplication, penchant, kiosk, apprehensive, ecology, insular, misnomer, culinary, rhetorical, awry and 13 more...
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Character Traits
This is a list of adjectives used by writers to help develop characters.
guileful, obsessed, brilliant, bright, naive, streetwise, streetsmart, ruthless, cruel, foolish, obsessive, introspective and 19 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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practice 1
daily practice
enamor, blatant, cornucopia, conspicuously, ensconce, obdurate, plausible, reprieve, gaudy, tawdry, obfuscate, bewilder and 105 more...
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RecoveringOverachiever's Words
obsessed, condescending, grueling, catastrophe, traumatic, extravaganza, haiku, inappropriateness, awesome, aforementioned, exaggerate, dastardly and 23 more...
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Bands that are words...
Those I like and those that are NOT phrases e.g. Air would count but Arcade Fire would not, even if I like both. Also specific groups of words are included such as Iron Maiden (a specific thing) vs...
air, iron maiden, kraftwerk, stereolab, pelican, isis, emperor, enslaved, beefcake, squarepusher, clutch, carcass and 34 more...
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List 11
Derivatives from Chapter 11 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
ineffable, credit, transmuted, Fates, fallible, credible, tractable, contingent, genitally, intangible, despicable, assimilable and 8 more...
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hcms5
Vocab for HCMS 7th grade
align, preview, obsessed, bewilder, conviction, dignity, passive, speculate, vary, status
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