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fixated
[ fik-sey-tid ]
adjective
- Psychoanalysis. arrested in emotional or sexual development:
To me, he still seems stuck at the stage of an orally fixated toddler.
- fastened or held in one place:
An unstable dislocation, often due to loose ligaments, is more problematic than the fixated type of joint dislocation.
- aimed or directed in one place:
He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish.
- focused on by the eyes:
Given a constant distance between the two eyes, the location of the fixated point, where the lines of sight of the two eyes meet, can be computed.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of fixate ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ھ·· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of fixated1
Example Sentences
Jenkinson, while aged 14, was fixated with videos on the dark web of killing and torture.
You also knew that he was fixated on starting a tariff war with America's biggest trading partners and was irrevocably hostile to our long-standing allies around the world.
Raducanu, 22, recoiled in horror when she saw a man - who she had already reported for what was described as "exhibiting fixated behaviour" - in the stands of her match in Dubai last month.
He’s fixated on a competition judge who, back in 2016, called his deltoids small.
Townsend's side were not fixated on playing the percentages and relying on a solid set-piece, because this Scotland team cannot do that.
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