fixated
Americanadjective
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Psychoanalysis. arrested in emotional or sexual development.
To me, he still seems stuck at the stage of an orally fixated toddler.
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fastened or held in one place.
An unstable dislocation, often due to loose ligaments, is more problematic than the fixated type of joint dislocation.
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aimed or directed in one place.
He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish.
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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.
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The president is also fixated on America’s trade deficit, which is the dollar figure in goods that the U.S. exports to a particular country minus what it imports.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
GM executives—and the broader industry—were long fixated on that market share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
However, for markets that are increasingly fixated on semiconductor stocks and taking their cue from them daily, it was Musk’s comments on memory chips that captured the attention.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Sometimes they can get fixated on certain goals and not listen to any adults around them, so that's where I come in and sit them down and talk to them."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Better still, 83 percent of all preschoolers fixated on the letters in a left-to-right sequence — mimicking, in other words, the actual reading process.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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