compulsive

3 definitions found

compulsive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Compulsive \Com*pul"sive\, a.
     Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive
           motives.                                 --Sharp.
     [1913 Webster]

compulsive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  compulsive
      adj 1: caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion;
             "compulsive drinking"
      2: strongly motivated to succeed [syn: compulsive,
         determined, driven]
      n 1: a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels
           compelled to do certain things

compulsive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "compulsive":
     accordant, anal, automatic, blind, bourgeois, coactive, coercive,
     compelling, compulsatory, compulsory, concordant, conditioned,
     conformist, constrained, constraining, conventional, corresponding,
     driving, forced, forceful, formalistic, gripping, harmonious,
     holding, impelling, imperative, imperious, impulsive, in accord,
     in keeping, in line, in step, instinctive, involuntary,
     irresistible, kosher, mechanical, obsessing, obsessional,
     obsessive, orthodox, overwhelming, pedantic, plastic, possessing,
     precisianistic, preoccupying, pressing, reflex, reflexive,
     restraining, square, straight, stuffy, traditionalist, unconscious,
     unintentional, unthinking, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, uptight,
     urgent