compulsively
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6.6
- adverb
- /kəmˈpʌlsɪvli/
:
compulsivamente
- At times, she seems almost compulsively driven to work.
- compulsively repeat
- almost compulsively
- compulsively driven
I write very compulsively about what I fear.
- I write very compulsively about what I fear.
- So it's fundamentally a stage where that individual has lost control and has the intense drive to compulsively take the drug.
- These are narcissistic adults who are still committed to compulsively trying to win over their disinterested or narcissistic parents.
- So sometimes I'm writing, but writing I think can_for me a desire to be compulsively productive.
- Every human being you encounter and your own life, you don't compulsively the compulsive, the compulsive to judge continuously isn't there.
Examples
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She knows I compulsively take care of people.
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The book I ended up re-reading compulsively was Zweig's remembrance of the city of his youth.
Academic text (2008) -
I write very compulsively about what I fear.
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Sometimes it actually frightened her to see how much and how compulsively these women spent their money.
Fiction book (1994) -
But he was a careful observer of plants and animals, and he was compulsively organized about recording his observations.
Academic text (2006) -
I was too nervous to sit still, so I compulsively paced circles around a stop sign.
Fiction book (1999) -
Agitated, he starts to compulsively organize the medicine chest and the shelves.
Fiction book (1997) -
His daughter's pain had been unbearable, and yet he was compulsively and lovingly driven to confront it.
Academic text (1995) -
Crane's work compulsively returns to the popular fascination with spectacles of fallen persons and torn bodies.
Academic text (1997) -
Many people compulsively check their phones for notifications throughout the day.
Synonyms
22
6.5
In a way that shows too much worry about one thing and makes you repeat actions
4
7.0
To show very strong support for a group or cause
In a strong, repeated way that shows worry and a need to control
Antonyms
How Compulsive
Surface Forms
Morphology
compulsively = compulsive (transparent) = compulsive + ly
Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'compulsive', so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
Compulsively comes from the word compel, which is made of com- 'together' and pel 'to drive', and it is like the word impulse. So, to do something compulsively is to act as if you are being 'driven' or pushed by a strong, repeating urge you cannot easily stop.