OBSESSIONAL Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

obsessional

adjective

Definition of obsessional

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caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urge had an obsessional need to be liked by everybody

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Recent Examples of obsessional Audiences may get hooked, mirroring the obsessional quality of true lizard people. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026 But obsessional online culture has sought to answer questions of origin rather than waving them off. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025

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Generating scholarly tomes at a rate of more than one a year involves obsessive amounts of research.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Yet tailoring is also one of fashion’s great luxuries — an intimate, almost obsessive process of shaping cloth around the body.

— Tyler Matthew Oyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of obsessive

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Low self-control, in contrast, is a core contributing factor to numerous problems, including substance abuse and impulsive buying.

— Joan M. Cook, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
Cage has answered with the impulsive, erratic, and frenzied style now allegorized in Spider-Noir as Reilly’s inner monster.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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