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having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. “was absolutely obsessed with the girl” synonyms: haunted, preoccupied, taken up. concerned. feeling or showing worry or solicitude. adjective. influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion. synonyms: possessed. controlled.
adjective. having an obsession (usually followed by with or by ): He is obsessed with eliminating guilt. having or displaying signs of an obsession: The audiophile entered the record store wearing an obsessed smile. Discover More. Other Words From. self -ob·sessed adjective. un ob·sessed adjective. Discover More. Word History and Origins.
: to haunt or excessively preoccupy the mind of. was obsessed with the idea. She was obsessed with her car. intransitive verb. : to engage in obsessive thinking : become obsessed with an idea. He's always obsessing over money. Examples of obsess in a Sentence. The war obsesses him—he talks about nothing else.
Word Origin. See obsess in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: obsess. Definition of obsess verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If something or someone obsesses you, or if you obsess about something or someone, you think about it, him, or her all the time: The whole relationship obsessed me for years. She used to obsess about her weight. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom.
to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him. Synonyms: haunt, control, possess. verb (used without object) to think about something unceasingly or persistently; dwell obsessively upon something. obsess. / əbˈsɛs / verb.
To preoccupy the mind of (someone) excessively. v. intr. To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic: The conference organizer obsessed over the smallest of details. [Latin obsidēre, obsess-, to beset, occupy : ob-, on; see ob- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] ob·ses′sor n.
