possessive

Meaning of possessive

adjective
  1. demanding someone's total attention and love.
    has he become jealous or possessive?
    he placed a firm, possessive hand on her elbow
  2. relating to or denoting the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession.

noun

a possessive word or form.

Information about possessive

Hyphenation of possessive

pos-ses-sive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • possessive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

possessive synonyms

Meaning genitive:

genitive, oblique

Meaning behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive:

proprietorial

Meaning having a tendency to protect someone, especially a child, excessively:

overprotective

Meaning (of a garment) fitting closely to the body and showing its shape:

clinging

Meaning determine the behaviour or supervise the running of:

controlling

Meaning have power and influence over:

dominating

Meaning feeling or showing a resentful suspicion that one's partner is attracted to or involved with someone else:

jealous

Translation of possessive

Words that rhyme with possessive

abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, pervasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, decisive, derisive, divisive

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