possessive
Meaning of possessive
adjective
- demanding someone's total attention and love.
has he become jealous or possessive?
he placed a firm, possessive hand on her elbow
- 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:
Meaning behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive:
Meaning having a tendency to protect someone, especially a child, excessively:
Meaning (of a garment) fitting closely to the body and showing its shape:
Meaning determine the behaviour or supervise the running of:
Meaning have power and influence over:
Meaning feeling or showing a resentful suspicion that one's partner is attracted to or involved with someone else:
Translation of possessive
- French: possessif
- German: besitzergreifend
- Spanish: posesivo
- Italian: possessivo
Words that rhyme with possessive
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