Modifies a noun

• liar: Let me begin by saying that I'm a pathological liar.

• gambler: Can you have a gambling problem without being a pathological gambler?

• hatred: In a nutshell, the man with no name meets the boy with soiled sheets who harbors a pathological hatred for surreal comedy.

• gambling: You are in: Issues " G - I of Issues... children affected by pathological gambling?

• anatomy: From here, he was awarded a New Zealand Fellowship to study pathological anatomy in the United States.

• fracture: Long bones are also at risk from pathological fracture.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: In fact, he appears to have an almost pathological dislike for what we represent.

• not: The lower leg volume increase was significant, but not pathological.

• even: In fact, the signifying mark of nationalism is its negative, or even pathological, connotations.

• rather: To all at the time, they seemed strange, indeed rather pathological monsters.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Anita goes off the rails; her desire for closure and some sort of answers becomes almost pathological.