Crossword-Solution: OBSESSIVE
We have 15 clues for the answer “OBSESSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fixated to an unhealthy degree | 1 answer |
| Abnormally preoccupied | 1 answer |
| Like Ahab's pursuit of Moby Dick | 1 answer |
| Single-minded to a degree. | 1 answer |
| motivated by a persistent overriding idea or impulse | 1 answer |
| Be unable to let go | 2 answers |
| Monomaniacal | 2 answers |
| all-consuming | 4 answers |
| Single-minded | 6 answers |
| A PERSON WHO HAS OBSESSIONS | 11 answers |
| compulsive | 12 answers |
| obsessed | 23 answers |
| neurotic | 42 answers |
| Unearthly | 47 answers |
| Haunting | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBSESSIVE (5)
His passion- ate, almost obsessive hatred of everything American finally comes to a head when he acts upon his desires.
Even now, Nostradamus is surely watching from afar, boasting over the accuracy of his prediction, and laughing at the insatiable progress, prosperity, and obsessive delusions of us human beings.
The most important consequence of having a strongly developed ultra‐ marginal life of this sort is that one’s ordinary fields of consciousness are liable to incursions from it of which the subject does not guess the source, and which, therefore, take for him the form of unaccountable impulses to act, or inhibitions of action, of obsessive ideas, or even of hallucinations of sight or hearing.
Interpreting the unknown after the analogy of the known, it seems to me that hereafter, wherever we meet with a phenomenon of automatism, be it motor impulses, or obsessive idea, or unaccountable caprice, or delusion, or hallucination, we are bound first of all to make search whether it be not an explosion, into the fields of ordinary consciousness, of ideas elaborated outside of those fields in subliminal regions of the mind.
Cross-pollination among disciplines traditionally kept in isolation will definitely enhance creativity by doing away with the obsessive channeling practiced nowadays.
Quotes with OBSESSIVE (3)
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better tha…
I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it’s a shallow love. You want proof?” Cagney didn’t wait for Dr. Victor to say yay or nay.“Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. Can true love be founded upon such shallow acquaintance? …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, S&S.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).