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thinking hard about something all the time: I am fixated on making tomorrow better. fixation. noun [ C ] us / fɪkˈseɪ·ʃən /
adjective. fix· at· ed ˈfik-ˌsā-təd. Synonyms of fixated. : arrested in development or adjustment. especially : arrested at a pregenital level of psychosexual development. Examples of fixated in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Her eyes became fixated on the floor section to the right side of the stage (audience perspective).
The meaning of FIXATE is to make fixed, stationary, or unchanging. How to use fixate in a sentence.
aimed or directed in one place: He looked up at me with the fixated stare of a strangled fish. 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.
to think about something too much and find it difficult to stop: fixate on High achievers sometimes fixate on their own flaws. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Continually thinking about. absorbed. axe. be devoured by something idiom. be hung up on something idiom. be wrapped up in something/someone idiom. brain. devour. fetishize.
verb. to become or cause to become fixed. to direct the eye or eyes at a point in space so that the image of the point falls on the centre (fovea) of the eye or eyes. psychol to engage in fixation. informal. tr; usually passive to obsess or preoccupy. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of fixate 1.
v.tr. 1. a. To cause (a person or the eyes) to look at or pay attention to something steadily: "My eyes were fixated on his playful, deep-set brown eyes" (Bernard Lown). b. To focus one's eyes or attention on: "When you fixate the closer of the two fingers, the one further away is seen double" (Robert F. Schmidt and Gerhard Thews). 2.
fixated (on somebody/something) always thinking and talking about somebody/something in a way that is not reasonable. He is fixated on things that remind him of his childhood.
(fɪkseɪtɪd , US fɪkseɪtɪd ) adjective. If you accuse someone of being fixated on a particular thing, you mean that they think about it to an extreme and excessive degree. But by then the administration wasn't paying attention, for top officials were fixated on Kuwait. [+ on/with/by] Fixated is also a combining form.
If you fixate on something, you become overly focused on it or attached to it. Don't fixate on your grades — try to enjoy the process of learning! While the original 19th century meaning of fixate was "make stable," it soon came to mean "gaze upon."
