obsessive-compulsive

English

Adjective

obsessive-compulsive (comparative more obsessive-compulsive, superlative most obsessive-compulsive)

  1. Characterized by obsessions and compulsions, especially by the need to perform repetitive tasks.
    • 2003 February 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 7 August 2014:
      Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.

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