Usually means: Unable to resist or stop behavior.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. compulsive: Merriam-Webster
  2. compulsive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compulsive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compulsive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compulsive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compulsive, compulsive: Wordnik
  7. compulsive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compulsive: Wiktionary
  9. compulsive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compulsive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compulsive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. compulsive: Dictionary.com
  13. compulsive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Compulsive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Compulsive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. compulsive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. compulsive: Rhymezone
  18. Compulsive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. compulsive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. compulsive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. compulsive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. compulsive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. compulsive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compulsive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compulsive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compulsive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. compulsive: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compulsive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.
▸ adjective:  Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
▸ noun:  One who exhibits compulsive behaviours.

Similar:
determined, driven, ambitious, neurotic, psychoneurotic, pulsive, obsessive, overresponsive, hooked, persistent, more...

Opposite:
voluntary, involuntary

Types:
gambling, sex, shopping, eating, more...

Phrases:
obsessive compulsive, Compulsive behavior, compulsive personality, compulsive gambling, compulsive neurosis, more...

Adjectives:
obsessive, more, less, cultural, sexual, anal, ultimate, chronic, borderline, instinctual, plural

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Similar:
determined, driven, ambitious, neurotic, psychoneurotic, pulsive, obsessive, overresponsive, hooked, persistent, more...

Opposite:
voluntary, involuntary

Types:
gambling, sex, shopping, eating, more...

Phrases:
obsessive compulsive, Compulsive behavior, compulsive personality, compulsive gambling, compulsive neurosis, compulsive behaviour, compulsive drinking, compulsive shopping, obsessive compulsive disorder, more...

Adjectives:
obsessive, more, less, cultural, sexual, anal, ultimate, chronic, borderline, instinctual, plural

Colors:
    charcoal,     crimson,     obsidian,     scarlet,     midnight blue, more...



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