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possessed
adjective
1 possessed
Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion:
— By love possessed.
synonym: obsessed.
Roget 777:
possessing
etc.
v.;
worth;
possessed of,
seized of,
master of,
in possession of;
usucapient†;
endowed with,
blest with,
instinct with,
fraught with,
laden with,
charged with.
possessed
etc.
v.;
on hand,
by one;
in hand,
in store,
in stock;
in one's hands,
in one's grasp,
in one's possession;
at one's command,
at one's disposal;
one's own
etc.
(property)
780.
unsold,
unshared.
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Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
crazy,
crazed,
aliene†,
non compos mentis;
not right,
cracked,
touched;
bereft of reason;
all possessed,
unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind;
insensate,
reasonless,
beside oneself,
demented,
daft;
phrenzied†,
frenzied,
frenetic;
possessed,
possessed with a devil;
deranged,
maddened,
moonstruck;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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2 possessed
Of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon.
synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal.
Roget 980:
demonic,
demonical,
impish,
demoniacal;
fiendish,
fiend-like;
supernatural,
weird,
uncanny,
unearthly,
spectral;
ghostly,
ghost-like;
elfin,
elvin†,
elfish,
elflike†;
haunted;
pokerish [U.S.].
possessed,
possessed by a devil,
possessed by a demon.
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Polish: opętany
Moby thesaurus: abandoned, amok, bedeviled, bellowing, berserk, besotted, bewitched, bursting with happiness, by one, carried away, collected, composed, consumed, controlled, crazed, delirious, demented, demoniac, demonized, devil-ridden, distracted, dominated, driven, easy, eaten up, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, feral, ferocious, fierce, fixated, flushed, frantic, freaked out, free and clear, frenzied, fulminating, furious, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, gripped, hag-ridden, haggard, haunted, held, high, hog-wild, howling, hung-up, hysterical, imparadised, in a transport, in ecstasies, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seisin, in seventh heaven, in stock, in store, infatuated, intoxicated, jubilant, mad, maddened, madding, maniac, monomaniac, monomaniacal, obsessed, on cloud nine, on hand, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, own, owned, pixilated, placid, poised, preoccupied, prepossessed, pressed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, ravished, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, self-possessed, sent, serene, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, storming, tranquil, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched ... show more.
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