Need another word that means the same as “compulsive”? Find 32 synonyms and 30 related words for “compulsive” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Compulsive” are: determined, driven, irresistible, uncontrollable, compelling, driving, overwhelming, overpowering, urgent, obsessive, obsessional, addictive, out of control, ungovernable, inveterate, chronic, incorrigible, incurable, irredeemable, hardened, hopeless, persistent, fascinating, gripping, riveting, engrossing, enthralling, captivating, spellbinding, mesmerizing, mesmeric, entrancing
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “compulsive” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| addictive | (of a substance or activity) causing or likely to cause someone to become addicted. Addictive behavior. |
| captivating | Capturing interest as if by a spell. Roosevelt was a captivating speaker. |
| chronic | Of a person having a chronic illness. A chronic smoker. |
| compelling | Driving or forcing. Compelling ambition. |
| determined | Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation. A determined effort to reduce inflation. |
| driven | Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power. A chauffeur driven limousine. |
| driving | Having the power of driving or impelling. Driving rain. |
| engrossing | Absorbing all one’s attention or interest. The most engrossing parts of the book. |
| enthralling | Capturing and holding one’s attention; fascinating. An enthralling best seller. |
| entrancing | Capturing interest as if by a spell. An entrancing smile. |
| fascinating | Extremely interesting. A fascinating story. |
| gripping | Firmly holding the attention or interest; exciting. A gripping TV thriller. |
| hardened | Used of persons emotionally hardened. Faced a case hardened judge. |
| hopeless | (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform. The situation is hopeless. |
| incorrigible | (of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed. An incorrigible mess. |
| incurable | Unalterable in disposition or habits. An incurable optimist. |
| inveterate | Habitual. His inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the reactionary powers. |
| irredeemable | (of paper currency) for which the issuing authority does not undertake to pay coin. So many irredeemable mistakes have been made. |
| irresistible | Too powerful or convincing to be resisted. What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. |
| mesmeric | Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell. She found herself staring into his mesmeric gaze. |
| mesmerizing | Capturing one’s complete attention as if by magic. The sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing. |
| obsessional | Characteristic of or affected by an obsession. A single minded or even obsessional leader. |
| obsessive | Affected by an obsession. People dogged by obsessive jealousy. |
| out of control | Not worth considering as a possibility. |
| overpowering | So strong as to be irresistible. An overpowering need for solitude. |
| overwhelming | Very great in amount. An overwhelming majority. |
| persistent | Stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot. The persistent gills of fishes. |
| riveting | Completely engrossing; compelling. The book is a riveting account of the legendary freedom fighter. |
| spellbinding | Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell. A spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome. |
| uncontrollable | Of persons. Her brother had an uncontrollable temper. |
| ungovernable | Incapable of being controlled. An ungovernable impulse to run away. |
| urgent | Of an action or event done or arranged in response to an urgent situation. An urgent whisper. |
| addiction | (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master. Under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery. |
| addictive | Relating to or susceptible to being or becoming addicted to something. He has an addictive personality. |
| alcoholic | Characteristic of or containing alcohol. His alcoholic daughter was the cause of his anxiety. |
| cantankerous | Having a difficult and contrary disposition. A cantankerous and venomous tongued old lady. |
| determined | Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation. Date and place are already determined. |
| dogged | Stubbornly unyielding. Success required dogged determination. |
| driven | Strongly motivated to succeed. A chauffeur driven limousine. |
| headstrong | Energetically wilful and determined. The headstrong impulsiveness of youth. |
| hidebound | Stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded. They are working to change hidebound corporate cultures. |
| insistent | Demanding attention- H.L.Mencken. Tony s soft insistent questioning. |
| intoxicate | Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. Except for NYC and LA no American city has so intoxicated and infuriated writers. |
| intransigent | An intransigent person. Her father had tried persuasion but she was intransigent. |
| kleptomania | An irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive. |
| kleptomaniac | Someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive. |
| obduracy | Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible. |
| obdurate | Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings. I argued this point with him but he was obdurate. |
| obsessive | A person who has obsessions. Obsessive gambling. |
| obstinate | Persist stubbornly. He obstinates himself against all rational arguments. |
| opinionated | Obstinate in your opinions. An arrogant and opinionated man. |
| ornery | Having a difficult and contrary disposition- Dorothy Sayers. An ornery old military man. |
| paranoid | A person who is paranoid. Further accusations would sound like the ramblings of a paranoid. |
| pertinacious | Stubbornly unyielding. The most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics. |
| pigheaded | Obstinate and stupid. |
| purposeful | Having or showing determination or resolve. The purposeful stride of a great barrister. |
| pyromania | An uncontrollable desire to set fire to things. |
| pyromaniac | A person suffering from pyromania. A ten year old pyromaniac. |
| tenacious | Persisting in existence; not easily dispelled. A tenacious local legend. |
| theft | The act of taking something from someone unlawfully. The latest theft happened at a garage. |
| unrelenting | Never-ceasing. Unrelenting opponents. |
| unyielding | Stubbornly unyielding. The Atlantic hurled its waves at the unyielding rocks. |
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