Obsessed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  obsessed \obsessed\ adj.
     1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern; -- used
        with with.
  
     Syn: haunted, preoccupied, taken up(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a
        strong emotion.
  
     Syn: possessed(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obsessed
       adj 1: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
              something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid
              riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got
              no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the
              children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old
              woman" [syn: {haunted}, {preoccupied}, {taken up(p)}]
       2: influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a
          strong emotion; "by love possessed" [syn: {possessed(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "obsessed":
     absorbed, absorbed in, affected, agonized, bedeviled, beset,
     besotted, bewitched, buried in, caught up in, contemplating,
     contemplative, devoted, devoted to, devoured by, dogged, dominated,
     engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, fixated, ghost-haunted,
     ghost-ridden, gripped, hag-ridden, harassed, haunted, held, hipped,
     hung-up, imbued with, immersed in, impressed, impressed with,
     infatuated, intent, intent on, involved, lost in, meditating,
     meditative, mindful, monomaniac, monomaniacal, monopolized, moved,
     nagged, obsessed by, occupied, overcome, penetrated with, plagued,
     possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, queer, racked, rankled,
     remembering, seized with, single-minded, specter-haunted,
     spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, stricken, studious, studying,
     submerged in, swept up, taken up with, torn, tortured,
     totally absorbed, touched, troubled, unable to forget,
     witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched, wracked,
     wrapped in, wrapped up in
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  OBSESSED, p.p.  Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and
  other critics.  Obsession was once more common than it is now. 
  Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for
  every day in the week, and on Sundays by two.  They were frequently
  seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally
  driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the
  peasant with them, for he vanished utterly.  A devil thrown out of a
  woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a
  hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap
  higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird.  A chaplain in
  Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the
  soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface.  The
  soldier, unfortunately, did not.