Entry Word: compulsive

Function: adjective

Meaning: caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urge <his compulsive clowning around can sometimes be annoying>

Synonyms impulsive, obsessive

Related Words uncontrollable, irrepressible; automatic, instinctive, involuntary, reflex, spontaneous; conditioned, mechanical; unconscious, unthinking, unwitting

Near Antonyms unforced, voluntary, willful (or wilful); controllable, manageable, resistible