: 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. His principal obsession was trying to economize.—
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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—Kansas City Star, 23 Nov. 2025
After a vacation in Denmark several years ago, my family became obsessed with a fancy licorice brand.
—The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2025
There was no rationale Harrison could have provided that would have convinced a kid like Dickason, let alone an army of diehard, obsessed fans, that abandoning the dream of Luka Dončić was ever worth it.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
One man who became obsessed with Garfield after his 1880 speech was the eccentric Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), and the series follows his attempts to get a job in the administration.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 23 Nov. 2025
After a vacation in Denmark several years ago, my family became obsessed with a fancy licorice brand.
—The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2025
There was no rationale Harrison could have provided that would have convinced a kid like Dickason, let alone an army of diehard, obsessed fans, that abandoning the dream of Luka Dončić was ever worth it.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025
One man who became obsessed with Garfield after his 1880 speech was the eccentric Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), and the series follows his attempts to get a job in the administration.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Obsessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsessed. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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