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Obsessive
/əbsˈɛsɪv/
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Obsessive
adjective
1.
Characterized by or constituting an obsession.
Synonym:
obsessional
.
"Obsessive gambling"
noun
1.
A person who has obsessions.
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"Obsessive" Quotes from Famous Books
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open old people's homes for her sons. She desexes her people with sport and
obsessive
ideas: were not other countries keeping her in perpetual unrest, she would in a couple of generations be
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— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun
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