fixated

fixated
[[t]fɪkse͟ɪtɪd, fɪ̱kseɪtɪd[/t]]
ADJ-GRADED: v-link ADJ on/with/by n
If you accuse someone of being fixated on a particular thing, you mean that they think about it to an extreme and excessive degree.

The danger is we'll get so fixated on the technology that we will substitute hardware for people.

COMB in ADJ-GRADED
Fixated is also a combining form.

...a pop-fixated music journalist.


English dictionary. 2008.

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  • fixated — UK [fɪkˈseɪtɪd] / US [fɪkˈseɪtəd] adjective 1) so interested in someone or something that you do not pay attention to anything else fixated on: He seems fixated on losing weight. 2) in psychology, someone who is fixated has feelings about sex… …   English dictionary

  • fixated — fix|a|ted [fıkˈseıtıd] adj always thinking or talking about one particular thing fixated on ▪ He never used to be so fixated on losing weight …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fixated — fix|at|ed [ fık seıtəd ] adjective 1. ) so interested in someone or something that you do not pay attention to anything else: fixated on: He seems fixated on losing weight. 2. ) TECHNICAL having feelings about sex that have not developed normally …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • fixated — adjective 1 always thinking or talking about one particular thing (+ on): Jeremy seems to be fixated on this idea of travelling around the world. 2 technical having stopped developing emotionally or mentally …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • fixated — adjective Date: 1926 arrested in development or adjustment; especially arrested at a pregenital level of psychosexual development …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fixated — adjective attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner …   Wiktionary

  • fixated — fix·at·ed adj arrested in development or adjustment esp arrested at a pregenital level of psychosexual development …   Medical dictionary

  • fixated — adj. stabilized, set firmly in place; obsessed with fix·ate || fɪkseɪt v. set firmly in place, stabilize, make steady; focus on (especially in an obsessive manner); experience arrested emotional development …   English contemporary dictionary

  • fixated — /ˈfɪkseɪtəd/ (say fiksaytuhd), /fɪkˈseɪtəd/ (say fik saytuhd) adjective 1. Psychology partially arrested in emotional and instinctual development. 2. Colloquial (sometimes followed by on) obsessed …  

  • fixated — adj obsessed, preoccupied, infatuated, compulsive, pathological, dominated, gripped, phobic, neurotic COLLOQ. hung up on …   Useful english dictionary

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