COMPULSIONISTS Synonyms

• annoy continually or chronically

• assail or attack on all sides:

• decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)

• lacking spontaneity; not natural

• compelled forcibly by an outside agency

• urged or forced to action through moral pressure

• strongly motivated to succeed

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

• showing emotional affliction or disquiet

• inhabited by or as if by apparitions

• urged or forced to action through moral pressure

• marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

• influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion

• a person who has obsessions

• characterized by or constituting an obsession

• of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon

• influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

• force somebody to do something

• necessitate or exact

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• spend extravagantly

• destroy completely

• use up (resources or materials)

• engage fully

• make a slave of; bring into servitude

• attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way

• pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• become fixed (on)

• an instinctive motive

• a strong restless desire

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• push for something

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts