Download the app
educalingo
Search
There's no such thing as a part-time 'Buffy' fan; people watch it compulsively.
Tom Lenk

Meaning of "compulsively" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF COMPULSIVELY

compulsively  [kəmˈpʌlsɪvlɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPULSIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compulsively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES COMPULSIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of compulsively in the English dictionary

The definition of compulsively in the dictionary is by compulsion. Other definition of compulsively is extremely.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMPULSIVELY


aggressively
əˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
comprehensively
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvlɪ
conclusively
kənˈkluːsɪvlɪ
convulsively
kənˈvʌlsɪvlɪ
decisively
dɪˈsaɪsɪvlɪ
defensively
dɪˈfɛnsɪvlɪ
excessively
ɪkˈsesɪvlɪ
exclusively
ɪkˈskluːsɪvlɪ
expansively
ɪkˈspænsɪvlɪ
extensively
ɪkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ
impressively
ɪmˈprɛsɪvlɪ
impulsively
ɪmˈpʌlsɪvlɪ
intensively
ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ
massively
ˈmæsɪvlɪ
passively
ˈpæsɪvlɪ
progressively
prəˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
recursively
rɪˈkɜːsɪvlɪ
repulsively
rɪˈpʌlsɪvlɪ
revulsively
rɪˈvʌlsɪvlɪ
successively
səkˈsɛsɪvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPULSIVELY

compulsative
compulsatory
compulse
compulsion
compulsionist
compulsitor
compulsive
compulsiveness
compulsivity
compulsorily
compulsory
compulsory liquidation
compulsory purchase
compunction
compunctious
compunctiously
compurgation
compurgator
compurgatorial
compurgatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPULSIVELY

actively
alternatively
collaboratively
collectively
comparatively
competitively
creatively
cumulatively
effectively
inductively
lively
lovely
negatively
objectively
positively
qualitatively
quantitatively
relatively
respectively
selectively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of compulsively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «compulsively» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF COMPULSIVELY

Find out the translation of compulsively to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compulsively from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compulsively» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

强制
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compulsivamente
570 millions of speakers

English

compulsively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बलपूर्वक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إلزامي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

навязчиво
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compulsivamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

compulsively
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compulsivement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Secara paksa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zwanghaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

衝動的に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강박
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kompulsif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị bắt buộc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

compulsively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Compulsively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dürtü etkisiyle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compulsivamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kompulsywnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нав´язливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compulsiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταναγκαστικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kompulsief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvångsmässigt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

compulsively
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compulsively

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPULSIVELY»

The term «compulsively» is regularly used and occupies the 99.308 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
54
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «compulsively» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of compulsively
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «compulsively».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPULSIVELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «compulsively» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «compulsively» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compulsively

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «COMPULSIVELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word compulsively.
1
William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
2
Pierre Dukan
If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.
3
Albert Ellis
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
4
Zach Gilford
I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
5
Wang Jianlin
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
6
Rem Koolhaas
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
7
Tom Lenk
There's no such thing as a part-time 'Buffy' fan; people watch it compulsively.
8
Justin Rosenstein
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.
9
Anthony Storr
It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
10
Tim Vine
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPULSIVELY»

Discover the use of compulsively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compulsively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Compulsively Mr. Darcy
For anyone obsessed with Pride & Prejudice, it's Darcy and Elizabeth like you've never see them before!
Nina Benneton, 2012
2
Heaven and Hell: A Compulsively Readable Compendium of Myth, ...
Presents an entertaining and witty compilation of legends, wisdom, muths, and more about Heaven and Hell, in a volume that features lists of famous sinners, a look at what the Devil is called in different cultures, a history of the Hell's ...
Mara Faustino, 2004
3
Psychedelic graphics: infinitely rich, highly decorative & ...
Psychedelic Graphics - Highly ornate and compulsively detailed decorative forms impart depth, richness and an elegant complexity to graphic expression.
Page One Publishing, Samuel Baker, Sebastián Campos, 2008
4
The Long Work Hours Culture: Causes, Consequences and Choices
Chapter. 9. It. Takes. Two. to. Tango: Workaholism. is. Working. Excessively. and. Working. Compulsively. Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Toon W. Taris and Arnold B. Bakker Since the term ''workaholism'' was coined by the American minister and ...
Ronald J. Burke, Cary L. Cooper, 2008
5
Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction
As hypothesized, all correlations displayed in Table 9.3 are positive, and all three indices of overwork are more strongly correlated with Working Excessively than with Working Compulsively: notably, work at weekends (t (2161) 4.30, p .001), ...
Ronald J. Burke, 2006
6
Compulsively Murdering Mao
A press secretary to a deputy prime minister discovers the CIA's covert manipulations behind a spy flight into China, and he clashes with a future president of the US in the Australian embassy in Beijing.
Bill Green, 2008
7
Six Therapists and One Client: 2nd Edition
and depressive, with perhaps some degree of obsessive compulsive disorder ( OCD). I considered OCD because he compulsively kept up at his regular work and his extra work of fixing up old cars, and he was compulsive in the sense that he ...
Frank Dumont EdD, Raymond J. Corsini PhD, 2000
8
Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-first Century
eats compulsively; he exercises compulsively; he consults his email compulsively ; he plays the piano compulsively. He wolfs tranquilizers and sleeping pills like penny candy. Throughout, “every evening he repeats the same gestures, puts the  ...
Warren F. Motte, 2008
9
Compulsive Overeating
Judith Peacock. Some experts say that binge-eating disorder affects from 2 to 5 percent of the United States population. Bulimia affects from I to 3 percent, and anorexia less than I percent. Bingeing Alone People who compulsively overeat ...
Judith Peacock, 2000
10
Handbook of Employee Engagement: Perspectives, Issues, ...
Whereas working excessively may facilitate performance, working compulsively may impair performance – particularly performance influenced by positive emotions. Two recent studies investigated relationships between work engagement, ...
Simon L. Albrecht, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPULSIVELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compulsively is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Lance Armstrong Trolls the Tour de France
... those medals—of which he has since been stripped—and compulsively lying about it even after being found out, he is still without real regret. «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Mary-Louise Parker on Heisenberg and 'comedy in the pitch black'
She describes herself as a liar, but I think she's compulsively honest. She's just a little bit outside of the social norm. I think she can be hard to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
An unsparing portrait of Alma Mahler as wife, mistress and muse
German author Oliver Hilmes probes the paradoxes in his even-handed, compulsively readable biography, "Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Rihanna Is No Pam Grier
... woman on film enacts bloody vengeance using her cunning, her ruthlessness, and the fact that society compulsively underestimates her. «The New Republic, Jul 15»
5
Tribute to jazz legend Billie Holiday comes to Bridport
She compulsively attached herself to men who mistreated her, and she began drinking heavily. Her health suffered; she lost most of her by then ... «Dorset Echo, Jul 15»
6
“KILLER” POLICE "BELONGING" ISSUES (11)
They were/are also obsessively/compulsively wed to the GUN--their sole source of power, and eager to use it. Oddly, they have always prided ... «Black Voice News, Jul 15»
7
Internet and Computer Addiction
When you feel more comfortable with your online friends than your real ones, or you can't stop yourself from playing games or compulsively ... «Daily Times Nigeria, Jul 15»
8
Loudoun County and Fauquier County health calendar
LOUDOUN INTERGROUP OF OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Fellowship for those who want to stop eating compulsively. For locations and ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
9
Hold On To These Habits When You Transition Out Of The Military
... knife hands all the time, high and tights, dipping compulsively, Rip Its, and drinking all night just to stumble to PT and run five miles. «Task & Purpose, Jul 15»
10
Fitness Calendar for Tuesday, July 7
Everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively is welcome. There are no dues, weigh-ins or lectures. For more meeting information, visit ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Compulsively [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/compulsively>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z