Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or causing an obsession: obsessive gambling.
- adj. Excessive in degree or nature: an obsessive need to win.
Wiktionary
- adj. Prone to cause obsession
- adj. Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
- adj. Excessive, as results from obsession.
- n. A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by or constituting an obsession
- n. a person who has obsessions
Etymologies
- obsess + -ive (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. ROTH: Oh, obsessive is a word everybody uses, but maniacal?”
“The term obsessive compulsive refers to a wide range of different behaviors.”
“I only wish I could be this encyclopedic — or is the word obsessive.”
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“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.”
“Noticing when satisfying a craving passes from utilitarian to obsessive is at the crux of psychological health.”
“GROSS: Well, obsessive is going to extremes and medium is not.”
“According to Wikipedia (accessed Aug 18), orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder characterized by an unhealthy obsession (as in obsessive-compulsive disorder) with what the sufferer considers to be healthy eating.”
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“Which is all just wonderful (and apparently they love the show), except that we are currently in obsessive catchup mode with The Wire at my home.”
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“I'd like to argue that the Bond universe is premised on a certain obsessive-compulsive logic, but a logic that can more profitably be understood as Althusserian and ideological rather than as simply Freudian and psychological, a logic that is less about regression to infantile sexuality than about the hopes and anxieties spawned by postwar culture. —”
“Eckert has a passion for this stuff, yes, you could call it obsessive monomania, but that is what collecting really is, which is really what this is all about, 'collecting' characters into universes and relationships, and utter, utter, fandom.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘obsessive’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 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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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1689 more...
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Absolute Favorites
ethereal, chiasmus, vengeance, voracious, traverse, embrace, instinct, blasphemy, in-depth, passionate, obsessive, bliss and 48 more...
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Morbidity
sickness (preferably of the brain)
morbidity, disease, malady, ailment, oneirophrenia, hysteria, dissociation, depersonalization, schizoaffective, neuropsychiatry, chronic, obsessive and 86 more...
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If the shoe fits, wear it
These words describe me, and I like them. There are other words to describe me that I don't like. I haven't included them here.
pragmatic, sarcastic, thrifty, caustic, logical, melancholy, cantankerous, acerbic, analytic, obsessive, supercilious, mordant and 15 more...
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who I am
traveller, solitary, imaginative, pensive, habitual, nostalgic, introspective, reticent, bashful, introverted, musical, obsessive and 9 more...
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vera is
pragmatic, quiet, inconsiderate, compassionate, brooding, obsessive, odd, loyal, musical, lazy, wordy, procrastinator and 12 more...
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self-glorification
words that describe me, for better or for worse.
petulant, obsessive, cinephile, neurotic, fashion, grammar, narcissism, garrulous, poor, exorbitant, antsy, obstreperous and 23 more...
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