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Synonyms for obsessive
əbˈsɛs ɪvob·ses·sive
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obsessiveadjective
Synonyms:
headstrong, unrelenting, unyieldingobsessiveadjective
A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession
The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive
Synonyms:
unrelenting, headstrong, unyieldingobsessiveadjective
Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives
Synonyms:
unyielding, unrelenting, headstrongobsessiveadjective
Excessive, as results from obsession.
A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout
Synonyms:
headstrong, unrelenting, unyielding
Princeton's WordNet
obsessiveadjective
a person who has obsessions
Antonyms:
unneuroticobsessional, obsessiveadjective
characterized by or constituting an obsession
"the obsessional character of his response"; "obsessive gambling"
Synonyms:
obsessionalAntonyms:
unneurotic
Editors Contribution
yandere
a person who is affected by obsession.
Submitted by acronimous on July 22, 2014
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How to use obsessive in a sentence?
There's a consensus around the world among central bank governors and governments at large that they want to have control of money and money supply and the seigniorage that comes along with it, but over-obsessive control and governance is probably more unique to China than anything else.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:
The sick and obsessive Mike Pence is going around Latin America, he's campaigning, he has failed on this mini-tour of South America.
Teenagers are wired to feel emotional and to feel almost obsessive about things, and passionate and impulsive. So it makes sense biologically that they are this entrenched in 1D.
My feeling from all this is that this is a story about anti-Semitism, it's a story about two young men who worked pretty much all of their lives since they were children to prepare for this moment, and they prepared with an obsessive compulsive behavior that normal people couldn't understand.
He was just almost obsessive about seeing his guns.
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