Obsessed

Quick meaning: Obsessed is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of obsess.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of obsess.

More Meanings

1. Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
2. Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.

Example Sentences

What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?

Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed.

It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil.

Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?

Synonyms for obsessed

Depending on context, synonyms include preoccupied, concerned, possessed, controlled, haunted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include concerned, haunted, preoccupied, controlled, possessed, obsessive.

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