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When someone is obsessed, they've lost control of their feelings about the object of their obsession. The adjective obsessed is often used to simply mean "very interested," but when someone is truly obsessed, their interest has become compulsive, and they've begun to lose control over it.
Obsessed definition: having an obsession (usually followed by with or by). See examples of OBSESSED used in a sentence.
obsess. [transitive, usually passive] to completely fill your mind so that you cannot think of anything else, in a way that is not reasonable or normal. be obsessed by somebody/something He's obsessed by computers. be obsessed with somebody/something She's completely obsessed with him.
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.
The meaning of OBSESS is to haunt or excessively preoccupy the mind of. How to use obsess in a sentence.
ob·sess. (əb-sĕs′, ŏb-) v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es. v. tr. 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.
1. : a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling. broadly : compelling motivation. an obsession with profits. has an obsession with gambling. 2. : something that causes an obsession. Losing weight can be an obsession that results in the avoidance of certain foods. obsessional. äb-ˈse-sh (ə-)nəl. əb- adjective.
