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compulsive

/kuhm-puhl-siv/US // kəmˈpʌl sɪv //UK // (kəmˈpʌlsɪv) //

强迫性,强迫性的,强迫症,强迫性十足的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : compelling; compulsory.
    • : Psychology. pertaining to, characterized by, or involving compulsion: a compulsive desire to cry.governed by an obsessive need to conform, be scrupulous, etc., coupled with an inability to express positive emotions.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Psychology. a person whose behavior is governed by a compulsion.

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Examples

  • The Martin House’s 12 ft by 15 ft bursar’s office, as it was called, was designed to accommodate the owner’s compulsive work habits.

  • Determined, stubborn, and tireless, she was motivated by what she described as an “almost compulsive desire to be busy and useful.”

  • This medication raised their levels of dopamine, which helped with the motor problems, but it also turned them into compulsive gamblers.

  • There were all these people with Parkinson’s disease who started becoming compulsive gamblers.

  • Other research and reporting suggest the pandemic has exacerbated symptoms for people with disordered eating, substance use disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and other diagnoses.

  • But it looks like it was created by crazed person with obsessive-compulsive behavior.

  • His detail seeking in our meetings is compulsive and a little nuts.

  • Sex and passion; compulsive, life-changing, soul-altering sex, all to be made more explicit than he had done in the past.

  • Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.

  • “Obsessive-compulsive tendencies really help to enhance abilities,” Okun said.

  • Nowhere in the world, I am sure, does the "to be continued in our next" interest take hold on one with such a compulsive grip.

  • In the hopes of averting so abhorrent, but compulsive an alternative.

  • He still takes us by the throat, but his grip is not compulsive.

  • Political and legal differences can be settled either by amicable or by compulsive means.

  • War is very often enumerated among the compulsive means of settling international differences.