compulsive
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5.6
- adjective
- /kəmˈpʌlsɪv/
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compulsivo
- I'm an irritating, compulsive listener.
- compulsive behavior
- obsessive-compulsive
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
I think we're driven by our unconscious compulsive cravings so much.
- I think we're driven by our unconscious compulsive cravings so much.
- But Spartanism is, it is this compulsive need to constantly let go of things.
- It's something that had a kind of compulsive thought that takes a hold of you.
- It also underpins some mechanisms of drug addiction, compulsive drug seeking for example.
- There's a lot of bot activity, There's a lot of kind of compulsive scrollers.
- We can't be free of compulsive and addictive thinking. If you're able to
- You're always vulnerable to these compulsive thoughts that come in patterns, right?
- One of them is absolute compulsive hand washing.
- I think I just was the most compulsive about it.
- So control is the first C compulsive use.
- Another is the positive stress pathway looks important for breaking the compulsive eating cycle.
- I think perfectionism should be classed as some kind of like compulsive disorder sometimes because it is.
- Meaning and purpose is a huge driver of compulsive behavior.
- But the men who obsess over it and like really kind of become compulsive about it.
- You know, Tourette's syndrome's a tick, motor ticks, vocal ticks, and often corpolamia, which is compulsive swearing.
- If you can get them to get compulsive about exercising, then you may have solved their problems.
- Addiction is the continued compulsive use of a substance or behavior despite harm to self and or others.
- Other things include compulsive behavior and anxiety.
- not me entangled in the compulsive nature of the existence,
Examples
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One of them is absolute compulsive hand washing.
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Symptoms include loss of emotional control, compulsive behavior, cravings, and crying spells.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's something that had a kind of compulsive thought that takes a hold of you.
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And that was the way her compulsive little mind worked all the time.
Fiction book (1991) -
Other things include compulsive behavior and anxiety.
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Addiction is the continued compulsive use of a substance or behavior despite harm to self and or others.
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I feel restless and have a compulsive urge to change my place.
Fiction book (1996) -
You're always vulnerable to these compulsive thoughts that come in patterns, right?
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Kids get hooked and become compulsive gamblers just like adults do.
Fiction book (1998) -
He feels a compulsive need to check his phone every few minutes.
Synonyms
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4.8
Very strongly interested in someone or something and thinking about them all the time
3
7.7
Having strong, repeated thoughts or worries that are hard to stop
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.5
A person who has repeated unwanted thoughts and feels they must repeat actions that cause problems in daily life
- Specialized
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3.5
A long-term mental health problem where unwanted thoughts make you repeat actions
- Specialized
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8.3
Showing repeated unwanted thoughts and strong urges to repeat actions that make daily life difficult
- Specialized
A person who needs things very neat and repeats actions until they feel right
How Compulsive
Surface Forms
Morphology
compulsive = compulsion (semi-transparent) = compuls + ive
If a learner knows 'compulsion', the adjective is fairly understandable, but the stem change and psychological nuance make the relation less than fully straightforward.
Etymology
Compulsive comes from an old Latin root that means 'to force' or 'to push', and you can see the same idea in words like compel and propel. So to be compulsive is to feel pushed by a strong, hard-to-control need.