Preposition: about

• thing: There was no need to get obsessive about these things.

• hygiene: I also became obsessive about hygiene, cleaning the kitchen and bathroom more than normal.

• anything: Here's what you need to know By Susannah Hickling Amanda Raby is obsessive about anything that touches her lips.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: Dean is getting a bit too obsessive for Rory.

• become: Simon Keep originally become a sound obsessive whilst studying at art school, making sound installation and electro-acoustic composition.

Modifies a noun

• disorder: Panic attacks may also be part of a phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder.

• compulsion: This is a quirky story about love, fear and obsessive compulsion.

• preoccupation: Hence our obsessive preoccupation with them this part pulls us obsessively, wanting to emerge from hiding.

• secrecy: I have been pleased to find there is not the obsessive secrecy I'd come to expect during my previous marriage.

• fascination: When their enchantment turns to obsessive fascination, however, the story takes on a darker edge.

• quest: We are never remotely in doubt about who to root for here; even Edmond's obsessive quest for revenge is morally pure!

Modifying Another Word

• almost: To these ends, DEFRA has been almost obsessive about secrecy.

• slightly: A pressured schedule toward mid month may make you slightly obsessive or too intense.

• rather: I'm the wrong person to ask about this, being rather obsessive fan of the bard and filmic adaptations of his work.

• quite: Our hunt for this band has been a long and tireless affair and quite obsessive at times.

• even: The threat could come from terrorists, rivals or even obsessive fans.

• too: Dean is getting a bit too obsessive for Rory.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Let me tell you a story about a man who became obsessive in his exercise of free speech.

• get: There was no need to get obsessive about these things.

• seem: Thomas Layton and his method of collecting seem obsessive to us today.