fixated

[fik-sey-tid]

adjective

1. Psychoanalysis.,  arrested in emotional or sexual development.

   To me, he still seems stuck at the stage of an orally fixated toddler.

2. fastened or held in one place.

   An unstable dislocation, often due to loose ligaments, is more problematic than the fixated type of joint dislocation.

3. aimed or directed in one place.

   He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish.

4. 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

1. the simple past tense and past participle of fixate.

Other Word Forms

• unfixated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fixated¹

fixate + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Back in my kitchen, my eyes fixated on the birch, its yellow-brown leaves clinging to its large, twisted frame.

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On a recent episode, a 19-year-old guest observed that it seemed odd for a man his age to be so fixated on the “intricate details” of college women’s lives.

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Some think the floundering and flawed heroine, who's fixated with her weight and relationship status, is not the best role model.

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Hauser presented a few scenarios that could emerge over the coming months, but his speech fixated on the issues of higher-than-expected inflation, weak productivity growth and diminished spare capacity.

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Television writers, most of whom are men, have long fixated on the perceived trauma inherent to pregnant people pushing a fully formed human from their bodies.

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