obsessively

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English obsess

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English obsessive

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English obsessively

From obsessive + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

obsessively (comparative more obsessively, superlative most obsessively)

1. In an obsessive manner.
2. To an obsessive degree.
   • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     There were moments when I doubted whether it was worth all the effort – whether it was crazy of Anderson to toil so obsessively over three breezy, cheeky vignettes which are neither sidesplittingly hilarious nor heart-wrenchingly insightful.

Coordinate terms

• excessively

Derived terms

• unobsessively

Translations

in an obsessive manner

• Catalan: obsessivament (ca)
• Galician: obsesivamente (gl)
• Greek: ιδεοληπτικά (el) (ideoliptiká)
• Italian: ossessivamente (it)
• Portuguese: obsessivamente (pt)
• Spanish: obsesivamente (es)

to an obsessive degree

• Italian: ossessivamente (it)