obsess

The word “obsess” has 2 syllables: ob-sess

It's pronounced as /əbˈsɛs/


What is synonym and antonym for obsess?

In the thesaurus, “obsess” has 38 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for obsess along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for obsess

  • absorb
  • allure
  • attract
  • beguile
  • bemuse
  • beset
  • bewitch
  • busy
  • captivate
  • catch up
  • charm
  • consume
  • distract
  • dominate
  • enchant
  • engage
  • engross
  • enthral
  • enthrall
  • enwrap
  • fascinate
  • grip
  • harass
  • haunt
  • hog
  • hold
  • hypnotize
  • immerse
  • infatuate
  • interest
  • intrigue
  • involve
  • mesmerize
  • monopolize
  • occupy
  • possess
  • preoccupy
  • torment

Antonyms for obsess

Meanings of obsess

  • verb
    1. (passive, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
    2. To dominate the thoughts of someone.
    3. (construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.

Example Sentences

  • Some people obsess over every detail when planning their vacations.
  • He tends to obsess over his performance evaluations at work.
  • Teenagers often obsess about their appearance during adolescence.
  • Her ex-boyfriend used to obsess over their relationship, constantly checking her social media accounts.
  • It's important not to obsess over things you cannot control, as it can lead to anxiety and stress.

On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obsess, such as: absorb, allure, attract, beguile, bemuse, beset, bewitch.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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habit

  • accouter
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  • activewear
  • addiction
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  • airs
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  • anatomy
  • apparel
  • array
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  • attire
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  • monkey
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  • obsession
  • oddity
  • outerwear
  • outfit
  • pattern
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  • penchant
  • persuasion
  • physique
  • playwear
  • pose
  • practice
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  • pret-a-porter
  • pretties
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  • quirk
  • rags
  • raiment
  • ready-to-wear
  • regalia
  • regime
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  • riding clothes
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  • structure
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  • tailor
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  • tatters
  • tawdry
  • tendency
  • tenor
  • thing
  • threads
  • tic
  • toggery
  • togs
  • toilet
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  • trim
  • trumpery
  • turn
  • underclothes
  • underdress
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  • uniform
  • usage
  • use
  • vest
  • vestiary
  • vestment
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  • vesture
  • wardrobe
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  • weakness
  • wear
  • wearables
  • weeds
  • wont
  • wrap

bananas

  • aberrant
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • berserk
  • bonkers
  • brainsick
  • bughouse
  • certifiable
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
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  • crazy as a loon
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • dotty
  • eccentric
  • fey
  • fixated
  • foolish
  • frantic
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  • fruity
  • gaga
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • insane
  • irrational
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • mad as a hatter
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • not all there
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • nutty as a fruitcake
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • odd
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  • off
  • out to lunch
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • pixilated
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  • potty
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • raving
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • sick
  • sick in the head
  • sociopathic
  • stark raving mad
  • strange
  • teched
  • tetched
  • touched
  • unbalanced
  • unhinged
  • unreasonable
  • unsound
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
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  • annoy
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  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
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  • antisocial
  • ape
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  • around the bend
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  • bile
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  • birdbrained
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  • bughouse
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  • cracked
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  • crackpot
  • crankiness
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  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
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  • devoted
  • dim
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  • dippy
  • disagreeable
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  • disputatious
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  • distant
  • distracted
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  • dorky
  • dotty
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  • dull
  • dumb
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  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
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  • enflamed
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  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
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  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
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  • hysteric
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  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
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  • in a fume
  • in a huff
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  • incense
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  • inept
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  • inflame
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  • inordinate
  • insane
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  • invalid
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  • irate
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  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
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  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
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  • kookie
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  • lamebrain
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  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
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  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
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  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
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  • malice
  • maniac
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  • mental
  • meshuga
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  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
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  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
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  • nonrational
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  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
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  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
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  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
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  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
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  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
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  • pixilated
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  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
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  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
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  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
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  • rancorous
  • rankle
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  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
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  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

imbued

  • abounding
  • absorbed
  • abundant
  • accustomed
  • adequate
  • animated
  • attached
  • awash
  • big
  • bounteous
  • brimful
  • burdened
  • bursting
  • charged
  • chock-full
  • chockablock
  • competent
  • complete
  • crammed
  • crowded
  • deluged
  • dependent
  • devoted
  • disposed
  • drowned
  • emotional
  • endued
  • engrained
  • enlivened
  • entire
  • extravagant
  • filled
  • flooded
  • fond
  • fraught
  • full
  • given over to
  • given to
  • glutted
  • gorged
  • habituated
  • hooked
  • hyped
  • implanted
  • impregnated
  • inclined
  • inculcated
  • indued
  • infused
  • ingrained
  • inoculated
  • instilled
  • intact
  • intense
  • inundated
  • invested
  • invigorated
  • jam-packed
  • jammed
  • jammed full
  • laden
  • lavish
  • leavened
  • loaded
  • obsessed
  • overflowing
  • overwhelmed
  • packed
  • packed like sardines
  • padded
  • permeated
  • pervaded
  • planted
  • plenteous
  • plentiful
  • plethoric
  • predisposed
  • profuse
  • prone to
  • replete
  • running over
  • sated
  • satiated
  • satisfied
  • saturated
  • sodden
  • sopped
  • spaced out
  • steeped
  • stocked
  • strung-out
  • stuffed
  • submerged
  • sufficient
  • suffused
  • surfeited
  • teeming
  • under the influence
  • used to
  • voluminous
  • wedded to
  • weighted

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