Synonyms for obsessive
əbˈsɛs ɪvob·ses·sive

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1. obsessiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   headstrong, unrelenting, unyielding

2. obsessiveadjective

   A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession

   The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive

   Synonyms:
   unrelenting, headstrong, unyielding

3. obsessiveadjective

   Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.

   Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives

   Synonyms:
   unyielding, unrelenting, headstrong

4. obsessiveadjective

   Excessive, as results from obsession.

   A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout

   Synonyms:
   headstrong, unrelenting, unyielding

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:5.0 / 1 vote

1. obsessiveadjective

   a person who has obsessions

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic

2. obsessional, obsessiveadjective

   characterized by or constituting an obsession

   "the obsessional character of his response"; "obsessive gambling"

   Synonyms:
   obsessional

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.0 / 6 votes

1. yandere

   a person who is affected by obsession.

   Submitted by acronimous on July 22, 2014  

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1. List of paraphrases for "obsessive":

   obsession, obsessed

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How to use obsessive in a sentence?

1. Dr. Karl Bowman:

   Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

2. Dannielle Miller:

   Teenagers are wired to feel emotional and to feel almost obsessive about things, and passionate and impulsive. So it makes sense biologically that they are this entrenched in 1D.

3. Ursula K. Le Guin:

   Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.

4. Janis Jones:

   I am an obsessive beach cleaner.

5. Keyu Jin:

   There's a consensus around the world among central bank governors and governments at large that they want to have control of money and money supply and the seigniorage that comes along with it, but over-obsessive control and governance is probably more unique to China than anything else.