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Definition of obsessive in English: obsessiveadjective əbˈsɛsɪvəbˈsɛsɪv 1Of the nature of an obsession. people dogged by obsessive jealousy Example sentencesExamples - The obsessive and compulsive nature of our relationship was alarming to us.
- Wilkinson has talked greatly in this newspaper about the art of kicking and we get the impression of a rather solitary, obsessive nature: a man who wants perfection.
- With his eloquence and fluent knowledge of art history, he speaks of da Vinci's obsessive nature.
- This game gives me a compulsion to my already obsessive nature to keep playing and to kill everyone who isn't me.
- I am particularly concerned about the obsessive nature of this defendant, and whether he represents a danger to women in general.
- Delaney owns pieces of clubs and bars around the city, and has an obsessive nature.
- Long ago I read he had an obsessive interest in toads.
- Eventually, if you persevere, the obsessive nature of the process yields unexpectedly beautiful results.
- We could've seen why Sara is so stubborn, or gotten some further insight into Hitchens' obsessive nature.
- His hair and beard were testimony to his fastidious nature and obsessive preening.
- It is true that the great but balding one has never been very good at multi-tasking, but that probably explains his obsessive behaviour.
- It is a relief, he says, to confess to the private consultant that the refuge he once sought in art for his depression and regimented obsessive nature, he now finds in the bottle.
- Everyday life can be a terrifying ordeal for the autistic, who struggle to grasp what is happening around them and often retreat into ritual or obsessive behaviour.
- Unless you have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of American politics, it is unlikely that you will have heard of Mr Shrum.
- Those who had watched the most television were more easily distracted and confused, more impulsive or restless, and more prone to obsessive behaviour.
- After decades of Marxist-Leninist education, Hungarians of all classes are showing an obsessive interest in their aristocratic forebears.
- The amusing thing here, of course, is that his character in the film is clearly an obsessive, neurotic control freak who also teaches his cat to use a flush toilet.
- Up to about 1918 he painted scenes of nature that have an obsessive, macabre quality, often based on childhood memories and fantasies.
- These have been the years in which the explosive growth of both economies leapt from being something British business thought worth watching to an obsessive interest.
- Paul's an independent filmmaker whose unbridled ambition is rivaled only by his equally unchecked obsessive nature.
Synonyms all-consuming, consuming, compulsive, dominating, controlling, obsessional, addictive, fanatical, fanatic, neurotic, excessive, besetting, gripping, haunting, tormenting, inescapable informal pathological US informal wackadoo, wackadoodle - 1.1 Affected by an obsession.
she became obsessive about her school work Example sentencesExamples - Domestic contentment has provided a secure foundation, enabling him to direct his obsessive focus on career success.
Synonyms obsessed with, preoccupied by, preoccupied with, obsessive about, single-minded about, possessed by, gripped by, in the grip of
noun əbˈsɛsɪvəbˈsɛsɪv A person who is affected by an obsession. he's an obsessive, obsessed with having complete collections of things Example sentencesExamples - She is an admitted obsessive, expecting an almost religious allegiance from her dancers.
- He is collected and quiet; totally convincing as a tight-lipped obsessive, tormented by his own demons.
- The stores are those in your mall that supply stuff to body-building obsessives.
- Even among political obsessives, there is huge uncertainty about what the new Conservatives stand for.
- Of most interest to Drake obsessives is Tow the Line, a previously unheard song discovered lurking at the end of an old master tape.
- These lists were complete enough to satisfy an obsessive.
- This sort of information no doubt grips the many Van Gogh obsessives.
- In their own ways, the two of them were obsessives.
- First, Singh is a true obsessive, a fanatic even.
- It glows a freakish, supernatural, luminous blue, for reasons none of the ice obsessives can explain to me.
- Hollywood turns brides-to-be into into petty, vulgar, nitpicking obsessives.
- His reputation has always been that of an obsessive, picking at detail in a way which could drive others frantic.
- You sense that, like any obsessive, he must be tricky to handle at times.
- It is a city that caters to the obsessions of every type of obsessive.
- Springfield is populated by solitary obsessives who are hopeless at coexisting with fellow citizens.
- Theirs is a marriage of football convenience made by football obsessives.
- We on this side of the Chamber, however, are not single-issue obsessives.
- You mentioned earlier that all of your narrators are obsessives.
- All booksellers, I begin to think, are crazed obsessives.
- Whether playing backgammon, football or the stock market, De Boer is an obsessive.
Rhymes aggressive, compressive, concessive, degressive, depressive, digressive, excessive, expressive, impressive, oppressive, possessive, progressive, recessive, regressive, repressive, retrogressive, successive, transgressive Definition of obsessive in US English: obsessiveadjectiveəbˈsesivəbˈsɛsɪv 1Of the nature of an obsession. people dogged by obsessive jealousy Example sentencesExamples - I am particularly concerned about the obsessive nature of this defendant, and whether he represents a danger to women in general.
- These have been the years in which the explosive growth of both economies leapt from being something British business thought worth watching to an obsessive interest.
- Wilkinson has talked greatly in this newspaper about the art of kicking and we get the impression of a rather solitary, obsessive nature: a man who wants perfection.
- Delaney owns pieces of clubs and bars around the city, and has an obsessive nature.
- We could've seen why Sara is so stubborn, or gotten some further insight into Hitchens' obsessive nature.
- It is true that the great but balding one has never been very good at multi-tasking, but that probably explains his obsessive behaviour.
- After decades of Marxist-Leninist education, Hungarians of all classes are showing an obsessive interest in their aristocratic forebears.
- It is a relief, he says, to confess to the private consultant that the refuge he once sought in art for his depression and regimented obsessive nature, he now finds in the bottle.
- Up to about 1918 he painted scenes of nature that have an obsessive, macabre quality, often based on childhood memories and fantasies.
- This game gives me a compulsion to my already obsessive nature to keep playing and to kill everyone who isn't me.
- Paul's an independent filmmaker whose unbridled ambition is rivaled only by his equally unchecked obsessive nature.
- Those who had watched the most television were more easily distracted and confused, more impulsive or restless, and more prone to obsessive behaviour.
- The amusing thing here, of course, is that his character in the film is clearly an obsessive, neurotic control freak who also teaches his cat to use a flush toilet.
- Unless you have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of American politics, it is unlikely that you will have heard of Mr Shrum.
- Long ago I read he had an obsessive interest in toads.
- Eventually, if you persevere, the obsessive nature of the process yields unexpectedly beautiful results.
- The obsessive and compulsive nature of our relationship was alarming to us.
- His hair and beard were testimony to his fastidious nature and obsessive preening.
- Everyday life can be a terrifying ordeal for the autistic, who struggle to grasp what is happening around them and often retreat into ritual or obsessive behaviour.
- With his eloquence and fluent knowledge of art history, he speaks of da Vinci's obsessive nature.
Synonyms all-consuming, consuming, compulsive, dominating, controlling, obsessional, addictive, fanatical, fanatic, neurotic, excessive, besetting, gripping, haunting, tormenting, inescapable - 1.1 Affected by an obsession.
she became obsessive about her schoolwork Example sentencesExamples - Domestic contentment has provided a secure foundation, enabling him to direct his obsessive focus on career success.
Synonyms obsessed with, preoccupied by, preoccupied with, obsessive about, single-minded about, possessed by, gripped by, in the grip of
nounəbˈsesivəbˈsɛsɪv A person who is affected by an obsession. an online store for garage-rock obsessives Example sentencesExamples - It is a city that caters to the obsessions of every type of obsessive.
- His reputation has always been that of an obsessive, picking at detail in a way which could drive others frantic.
- This sort of information no doubt grips the many Van Gogh obsessives.
- You sense that, like any obsessive, he must be tricky to handle at times.
- Springfield is populated by solitary obsessives who are hopeless at coexisting with fellow citizens.
- He is collected and quiet; totally convincing as a tight-lipped obsessive, tormented by his own demons.
- Of most interest to Drake obsessives is Tow the Line, a previously unheard song discovered lurking at the end of an old master tape.
- These lists were complete enough to satisfy an obsessive.
- Whether playing backgammon, football or the stock market, De Boer is an obsessive.
- It glows a freakish, supernatural, luminous blue, for reasons none of the ice obsessives can explain to me.
- Even among political obsessives, there is huge uncertainty about what the new Conservatives stand for.
- You mentioned earlier that all of your narrators are obsessives.
- We on this side of the Chamber, however, are not single-issue obsessives.
- The stores are those in your mall that supply stuff to body-building obsessives.
- Hollywood turns brides-to-be into into petty, vulgar, nitpicking obsessives.
- She is an admitted obsessive, expecting an almost religious allegiance from her dancers.
- First, Singh is a true obsessive, a fanatic even.
- In their own ways, the two of them were obsessives.
- All booksellers, I begin to think, are crazed obsessives.
- Theirs is a marriage of football convenience made by football obsessives.
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