fixated

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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.

  1. aimed or directed in one place:He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish.

  2. 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.

Origin of fixated

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Other words from fixated

  • un·fix·at·ed, adjective

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