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Meanings of
obsessional
in English
Characterized by or constituting an obsession.
obsessive
Related terms
neurotic
psychoneurotic
Synonyms
Examples for "
obsessive
"
obsessive
Examples for "
obsessive
"
1
And the company has taken an
obsessive
approach to designing the product.
2
The Market even oftens RSS feeds for the really, really
obsessive
dedicated.
3
His
obsessive
concern for security, secrecy, and personal survival saw to that.
4
He is
obsessive
;
he would keep going until he got it right.
5
Today I'm reasonably sure that he had
obsessive
compulsive disorder, or OCD.
Usage of
obsessional
in English
1
The Beeb is famous for its
obsessional
love of initials for people's jobs.
2
That kind of love is emotional in nature but not
obsessional
.
3
Golf-wise, he is described as borderline
obsessional
and filled with knowledge.
4
This is when her
near-
obsessional
interest in Virginia Woolf began.
5
There may be other symptoms like hyperactivity or
obsessional
behaviour.
6
There are different leagues of vegetable gardener, from the give-it-a-go crowd to the
obsessional
anorak.
7
The fantasies of children, and the almost
obsessional
lying in some young adolescents, too, we avoid.
8
The arts are
obsessional
,
and obsession is dangerous.
9
The New Yorker, April 10, 2000 P. 52 REFLECTIONS about
obsessional
thinking...
10
High dropout rates may be related to the inflexible and
obsessional
cognitive style of patients with AN.
11
His psychology was too different, too
obsessional
.
12
Sourdough bakers are
obsessional
,
meticulous folk, and they are driven by the simple, stunning conundrum of sourdough bread.
13
In an absorbing experiment, both arch and
obsessional
,
the theatremaker Dick Walsh makes it his mission to know.
14
In this connection I must again mention that the Freudians include tics under their obsessive
(
obsessional
)
neuroses.
15
So the 32-year-old architect focused an almost
obsessional
level of attention on making every square inch earn its keep.
16
The morbid and
obsessional
material here, worked over with infinite finesse, is susceptible to various interpretations, psychic or psychotic.
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obsessional
Adjective
Frequent collocations
almost obsessional
become obsessional
borderline obsessional
call obsessional
not obsessional
More collocations
Obsessional
through the time