COMPULSIVE Synonyms

• causing or characterized by addiction

• the capacity to attract and hold something

• strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration

• the act of applying a bandage

• one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• executed with proper legal authority

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• without forethought

• having the power of driving or impelling

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• impossible to resist; overpowering

• overpoweringly attractive

• characterized by or constituting an obsession

• a person who has obsessions

• characterized by or constituting an obsession

• a person with obsessive-compulsive characteristics

• characterized by obsessions and compulsions

• so strong as to be irresistible

• so strong as to be irresistible

• very strong; urgently felt

• having a determined will

• difficult to solve or alleviate

• incapable of being controlled

• incapable of being controlled or managed

• impossible to repress or control

• To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.

• To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

• To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.

• To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.

• To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

• To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

• Causing addiction.

• having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation

• characterized by great determination

• devoting full strength and concentrated attention to

• determined or decided upon as by an authority

• strongly motivated to succeed