: preoccupied with or haunted by some idea, interest, etc. : being in a state of obsession
This was because on vacations my father was a man obsessed.—
Bill Bryson
Bill BrysonGatsby the obsessed lover, erecting an empire and stringing it with lights to impress a girl …—Claudia Roth Pierpont
Claudia Roth PierpontShe was at once obsessed with being a good person and brutal to the people who worked for her.—Rachel Abramowitz
Rachel AbramowitzBut it seems we're becoming so obsessed with healthy eating, we are embarking on up to three different diets a year.—Unity Blott
—sometimes used in combinationUnity Blotta sports-obsessed teenager
obsessedly
adverb
"He wants her to be free of him and she doesn't know that she is obsessedly in love with him."
—Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Examples of obsessed in a Sentence
the youngster was so obsessed with video games that he had little interest in playing outside
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
Mirzakhani became obsessed with these circumnavigating curves.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
Much later, my brother became obsessed with meteorology and dreamed of becoming a weatherman.
—Bob Hicok, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Why did the world suddenly become obsessed with the northern lights?
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Obsessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsessed. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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