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obsessiveob‧ses‧sive1 /əbˈsesɪv/ adjective - Deep anxiety can cause obsessive behaviour.
- I try to look after my body as best I can, but I'm not obsessive about it.
- She's got this obsessive fear of losing control, so she never shows her emotions.
- She has an obsessive need to control everything.
- Also, learning to be obsessive about detail.
- By the next morning, the now familiar, obsessive anxiety had returned.
- Its obsessive search for more water, however, was never to end.
- More precaution than that seemed obsessive.
- The care of the interior demands an obsessive habit of mind.
- This should annoy players who are obsessive about mapping details.
- Who, except the most obsessive academic, reads a book as he hears speech?
to have an obsession► have an obsession with/for · My father always said I had an unhealthy obsession for spotty pop bands.· Our French teacher had a neurotic obsession with correct punctuation. ► obsessed someone who is obsessed , has an obsession about someone or something: · Madonna was being stalked by an obsessed fan.obsessed by/with/about: · She was obsessed by Giles· He became obsessed in his old age with what to do with his immense wealth.· People are generally less obsessed about getting a tan than they used to be. ► obsessive having an unreasonably strong and continuous interest in someone or something, so that you cannot stop thinking about them and your behaviour is seriously affected: · She's got this obsessive fear of losing control, so she never shows her emotions.· Deep anxiety can cause obsessive behaviour.obsessive about: · I try to look after my body as best I can, but I'm not obsessive about it. ► can't get somebody/something out of your mind to be unable to stop thinking about someone or something, even when you do not want to think about them: · Since the divorce, he hadn't been able to get Bonniet out of his mind.· She knew the story wasn't true, but she couldn't get it out of her mind. ► have a thing about informal to have an unreasonably strong interest in, liking for, or fear of something: · Joanne's got a thing about her hair. She's always changing the style.· The Captain had a thing about neat handwriting; in fact he couldn't bear to look at anything that wasn't beautifully written. ► obsess if something obsesses someone, or they obsess about it, they think about it all the time and cannot think about anything else: · The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her.obsess about: · Some women obsess about their thighs and stomachs. ► have a one-track mind to be continuously thinking about one subject so that you often talk about it when there is no reason to: · Boys of that age have a one track mind. All they think about is sex. ► have an unhealthy interest in to have a strong and unnatural interest in something, so that you think about it a lot: · As a child, Quinlan had an unhealthy interest in death. 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 by Nkrumah's almost obsessive working habits.· He remembered that his attack on the archives had been almost obsessive.· But everything he said was treated with almost obsessive distrust. ► so· At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong. NOUN► concern· With the coming of a child-centred approach to discipline, the old obsessive concern with orderly habits and unfailing obedience was discarded.· It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President's bid for re-election might just possibly fail. thinking or worrying about something all the time, so that you do not think about other things enough – used to show disapproval: an obsessive concern with cleanliness and orderobsessive about (doing) something I try to stay fit, but I’m not obsessive about it.—obsessively adverb |