obsess
/əbˈsɛs/
obsess verb: to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
Verb
obsess (third-person singular simple present obsesses, present participle obsessing, simple past and past participle obsessed)
- To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
- Some people are obsessed with sports.
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
- To dominate the thoughts of someone.
- Thoughts of her obsess my every waking moment.
- To think or talk obsessively about.
- Stop obsessing over it, will you!
obsess meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
obsess in Tamil
- மனப்பற்று
obsess in Urdu
- گھیرنا, قبضہ کرنا
obsess in Bengali
- আচ্ছন্ন করা, পেয়ে বসা, সর্বদা চিন্তা করা
obsess in Malayalam
- ഉപദ്രവിക്കുക, ഒഴിയാബാധയാവുക, ശല്യപ്പെടുത്തുക, പീഡിപ്പിക്കുക
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- obsess in Kannada
- ಎಡೆಬಿಡದೆ ಕಾಡು, ನಿರಂತರ ಪೀಡಿಸು, ಸದಾ ಬೆನ್ನು ಹತ್ತಿರು, ಗೀಳುಹಿಡಿ
Examples of obsess in a sentence
- Millennial cringe may include skinny jeans, using the laugh-cry emoji 😂, over-sharing on social media, or obsessing over "adulting".
- I took the phentermine pills and started quietly obsessing about losing weight again.
- Right now it is too dangerous to obsess about such things.
Synonyms of obsess
Forms of obsess
| third-person singular present | obsesses |
|---|---|
| present participle | obsessing |
| past participle | obsessed |
| past | obsessed |
Origin of obsess
From Latin obsessus, perfect passive participle of obsideō (“sit on or in, remain, besiege”), from ob- (“before”) + sedeō (“to sit”); see sit, session, etc.; compare assess, possess.
Words formed from obsess
Words that rhyme with obsess
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about obsess
- What does obsess mean?
- Obsess means to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
- What is obsess in Tamil?
- Obsess in Tamil is மனப்பற்று. See Obsess meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is obsess?
- Obsess is a verb.
- How do you pronounce obsess?
- Obsess is pronounced /əbˈsɛs/.
- What is the past tense of obsess?
- The past tense of obsess is obsessed.
Words near obsess in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: obsess (page history and authors); obsess (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obsess (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obsess (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obsess (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obsess (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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