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obsessive-compulsive

/uhb-ses-iv-kuhm-puhl-siv/US // əbˈsɛs ɪv kəmˈpʌl sɪv //

强迫症,强迫症患者,强迫症患者的强迫症,强迫症患者的强迫

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or relating to a personality characterized by perfectionism, indecision, conscientiousness, concern with detail, rigidity, and inhibition.
    • : Psychiatry. noting or relating to a disorder or neurosis characterized by persistent intrusion of unwanted thoughts or the performance of actions, as repeated hand-washing, that one is unable to stop: obsessive-compulsive disorder.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person having obsessive-compulsive traits.

Examples

  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • McCauley may have married beneath her station, but Gordon-Levitt has obsessive fans.

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

  • Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”

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

  • 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.

  • Throughout his literary activity it has an obsessive hold on his mind.

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