Usually means: Excessively focused, beyond normal limits.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word obsessively:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsessively: Merriam-Webster
  2. obsessively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obsessively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. obsessively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Obsessively, obsessively: Wordnik
  6. obsessively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. obsessively: Wiktionary
  8. obsessively: Dictionary.com
  9. obsessively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. obsessively: Rhymezone
  11. obsessively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obsessively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. obsessively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsessively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. obsessively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obsessively)

▸ adverb:  In an obsessive manner.
▸ adverb:  To an obsessive degree.

Similar:
obsessionally, compulsively, obsessingly, obsessedly, addictively, preoccupiedly, besottedly, unobsessively, neurotically, obstinately, more...

Opposite:
casually, nonchalantly, indifferently

Phrases:
worried obsessively, praising obsessively, following obsessively, obsessively check on someone, more...

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Similar:
obsessionally, compulsively, obsessingly, obsessedly, addictively, preoccupiedly, besottedly, unobsessively, neurotically, obstinately, more...

Opposite:
casually, nonchalantly, indifferently

Phrases:
worried obsessively, praising obsessively, following obsessively, obsessively check on someone, more...



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