obsessive person

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Jamil admitted that anorexia had made her "an exhausted, boring, navel-gazing obsessive person" in her teens and early 20s.

From BBC • May 30, 2024

“I’m a very obsessive person, so one poster became every poster,” Mr. Kraft said.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2018

He says his dad’s an obsessive person, and this attention to detail is something he’s taken into Pharmacopeia.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2017

He’s a very obsessive person, and when obsessive people get attached to something, into something, we tend to take it way too far,” says Brock.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

But note: "anorak" is also a somewhat derogatory term for a nerdy, obsessive person.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2012