Definition of obsessed
: 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
- Gatsby the obsessed lover, erecting an empire and stringing it with lights to impress a girl …
- —Claudia Roth Pierpont
- She was at once obsessed with being a good person and brutal to the people who worked for her.
- —Rachel Abramowitz
- But it seems we're becoming so obsessed with healthy eating, we are embarking on up to three different diets a year.
- —Unity Blott
- a sports-obsessed teenager
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obsessedly
play \əb-ˈse-səd-lē, -ˈsest-lē, äb-\ adverb-
- "He wants her to be free of him and she doesn't know that she is obsessedly in love with him."
- —Anthony Hopkins
