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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 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·ھ·· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fixated1
Example Sentences
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.
“They’re so often fixated on individuals who are going through some sort of transformation and the game is simply a metaphor for that,” explains Lund.
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