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- Dictionaryobsess/əbˈsɛs/
verb
- 1. preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually and to a troubling extent: "he was obsessed with the idea of revenge"
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unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in or worried about something: Why are people so obsessed with money? As a society we're obsessed by sex. Fewer examples. He's obsessed with Barbra Streisand and collects anything and everything connected with her. Mankind has always been obsessed by power.
An obsession with something is an unhealthy, extreme interest in it. When someone is obsessed, they've lost control of their feelings about the object of their obsession.
The meaning of OBSESSED is preoccupied with or haunted by some idea, interest, etc. : being in a state of obsession —sometimes used in combination. How to use obsessed in a sentence.
If someone is obsessed with a person or thing, they keep thinking about them and find it difficult to think about anything else.
Obsessed definition: having an obsession (usually followed by with or by). See examples of OBSESSED used in a sentence.
If something or someone obsesses you, or if you obsess about something or someone, you think about it, him, or her all the time: The whole relationship obsessed me for years. She used to obsess about her weight. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom.
unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in or worried about something: Why are people so obsessed with money? As a society we're obsessed by sex. Fewer examples. He's obsessed with Barbra Streisand and collects anything and everything connected with her. Mankind has always been obsessed by power.
