Obsessive - English meaning

adjective

(of a substance or activity) causing or likely to cause someone to become addicted.

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A highly addictive drug

adjective

An addictive drug is one that you cannot stop taking once you have started

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Tobacco is highly addictive.

adjective

An addictive activity or food is one that you cannot stop doing or eating once you have started

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The problem with video games is that they're addictive., these nuts are addictive - i can't stop ea…

adjective

Taking almost all of your attention and time

Usage examples:

Money is an all-consuming passion with them., her work became all-consuming.

verb

(of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently.

Usage examples:

The social problems that beset the uk

adjective

Having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems

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With the amount of traffic nowadays, even a trip across town is beset by/with dangers.

adjective

Resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge.

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Compulsive eating

adjective

Doing something a lot and unable to stop doing it

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A compulsive liar/thief/eater, compulsive gambling, a compulsive eating disorder

adjective

If a film, play, sports event, book, etc. is compulsive, it is so interesting or exciting that you do not want to stop watching or reading it

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I always find programmes about hospitals compulsive viewing., her latest book is compulsive reading…

adjective

(of a feeling) completely filling one's mind and attention; absorbing.

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A consuming passion

verb

Eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink).

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People consume a good deal of sugar in drinks

adjective

A consuming emotion is very strong

Usage examples:

Running is a consuming passion with him.

verb

Determine the behaviour or supervise the running of.

Usage examples:

He was appointed to control the company's marketing strategy

noun

The power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events.

Usage examples:

The whole operation is under the control of a production manager

noun

A person or thing used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment.

Usage examples:

Platelet activity was higher in patients with the disease than in the controls

verb

Have power and influence over.

Usage examples:

The company dominates the market for operating system software

adjective

Being the largest, most important, most noticeable, or the best person or thing

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The other dominating issue is mps' expenses., in the third set, nadal was quickly back to his domin…

adjective

Having control over a person or place

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The imperialist action takes the form of creating a local bourgeoisie, controlled by the ruling cla…

adjective

More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.

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He was drinking excessive amounts of brandy

Beyond normal limits

adjective

Too much or too many

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Some property owners complained that they were being charged excessive fees., the directive will pr…

noun

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

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Religious fanatics

adjective

Filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

Usage examples:

His eyes had a fanatic iciness

noun

A person whose strong admiration for something is extreme and unreasonable

Usage examples:

A fitness/exercise fanatic, her devotion to her pets was fanatical.

adjective

Filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.

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Fanatical revolutionaries

adjective

Extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable

Usage examples:

His dedication to fitness was almost fanatical., fanatical about gary's fanatical about football., …

adjective

Holding extreme beliefs that may lead to unreasonable or violent behaviour

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A fanatical group that has threatened to assassinate doctors

adjective

Firmly holding the attention or interest; exciting.

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A gripping tv thriller

verb

Take and keep a firm hold of; grasp tightly.

Usage examples:

His knuckles were white as he gripped the steering wheel

adjective

Interesting or exciting

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A gripping story

adjective

Poignant; evocative.

Usage examples:

The sweet haunting sound of pan pipes

noun

The action of haunting a place.

Usage examples:

The haunting of calgarth hall

verb

(of a ghost) manifest itself at (a place) regularly.

Usage examples:

A grey lady who haunts the chapel

adjective

Unable to be avoided or denied.

Usage examples:

Political reform was inescapable

adjective

Impossible to avoid or not to accept

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The evidence points to the inescapable conclusion that he is guilty of the crime.

adjective

If a fact or a situation is inescapable, it cannot be ignored or avoided.

adjective

Having, caused by, or relating to neurosis.

Usage examples:

Thus, by putting the patient in contact with his phantasy world, psychoanalysis offers a special se…

noun

A neurotic person.

Usage examples:

I wasn't going to be labelled as a hypochondriac or neurotic

adjective

Related to or having unreasonable anxiety or unusual behavior

Usage examples:

A deep-seated neurotic fear of flying

adjective

Characteristic of or affected by an obsession.

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People with chronic obsessional behaviour

adjective

Relating to pathology.

Usage examples:

The interpretation of pathological studies

adjective

(of a person) unreasonable, or unable to control part of his or her behavior

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A pathological fear of heights, a pathological liar, a pathological laboratory

adjective

Inflicting severe physical or mental suffering.

Usage examples:

Peace from his tormenting thoughts

verb

Cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.

Usage examples:

He was tormented by jealousy

verb

Present participle of torment

Usage examples:

The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes., the camera focused on a group of wo…