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obsessive

[uhb-ses-iv] / əbˈsɛs ɪv /
ADJECTIVE
addictive
Synonyms
WEAK
enslaving hooking














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As a magazine obsessive growing up in the heyday of print media, I always associated the new year with a publishing-world contradiction: the January issue.

From Salon

Foley describes Richardson as having “an obsessive commitment to a moment feeling true.”

From Los Angeles Times

Yet the sport at which he excelled was not his true, obsessive love.

From BBC

“This type of obsessive food-related thinking can override hunger cues and lead to patterns of overeating, undereating or emotional eating — especially for people who are overweight,” Tufts said.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Sturridge is almost animalistic and at times absurdly funny in delineating Mat’s sudden and obsessive love; it seems to draw him to Anna with an almost overpowering force.

From The Wall Street Journal