Possessive

What do we mean by possessive?

Of or relating to ownership or possession. adjective

Having or manifesting a desire to control or dominate another, especially in order to limit that person's relationships with others. adjective

Of, relating to, or being a noun or pronoun case that indicates possession. adjective

The possessive case. noun

A possessive form or construction. noun

Pertaining to or denoting possession; expressing possession: as in a lady's dress, their house, a mere notion of John's.

A pronoun or other word denoting possession. noun

The possessive case. noun

Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. adjective

The genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. adjective

A pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book. adjective

The possessive case. noun

A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case. noun

Of or pertaining to ownership or possession. adjective

Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc. adjective

Unwilling to yield possession of. adjective

The possessive case. noun

A word used to indicate the possessive case. noun

The case expressing ownership noun

Having or showing a desire to control or dominate adjective

(grammar) The possessive case.

(grammar) A word used to indicate the possessive case.

Words that are spelled similarly to possessive:
possessive, possessivo, possession, obsessive, possessing, possessives, possessival.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word possessive:
alienable, determiner, possessor, enclitic, pronoun, pronominal, apostrophe, suffixes, genitive, inalienable, adjectives, partitive, interrogative, demonstrative, inflected, attributive, noun, locative, preposition, inflect, suffix, adjectival, nouns, reflexive, inflection, adjective, affixes, dative, affix, prefixes, nominative, accusative, morpheme, antecedent, declension, plural, prefix, singular, emphatic, classifier, precede, inanimate, modifier, possessed, verbs, phrases, neuter, yours, indefinite, grammatical, individualism, precedes, verb, animate, masculine, ours, marker, hers, jealous, definite, consonant, kinship, feminine, possession, particle, phrase, clauses, concord, modify, jealousy, oblique, nominal, vowel, tense, thy, inclusive, behave, forms, sentences, object, marking, paradigm, gender, verbal, person, analogous, compare, indicate, stressed, distinction, preceded, indirect, mine, boyfriend, distinguish, lover, corresponding, languages, stem, your.

Words that rhyme with possessive:
aggressive, progressive, impressive, excessive, oppressive, successive, expressive, regressive, obsessive, repressive, crescive, recessive, depressive, unimpressive, pressive, guessive, essive, past progressive, present progressive, future progressive, abs of, abscess of, access of, address of, assess of, bess of, caress of, cbs of, ccs of, chess of, confess of, distress of, dress of, dss of, egress of, es of, ess of, esse of, excess of, express of, fess of, finesse of, gress of, guess of, headdress of, hess of, hesse of, impress of, jess of, largesse of, lcs of, les of, less of, letterpress of, ls of, mess of, nes of, ness of, nevertheless of, noblesse of, nonetheless of, oas of, odessa of, overdress of, possess of, press of, presse of, process of, progress of, recess of, redress of, ress of, stress of, success of, tess of, tress of, ts of, undress of, unless of, uss of, walesa of, wes of, ws of, yes of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe possessive:
singular, plural, double, prenominal, english, nominative, little, neuter, second, inflected, more, real, correct, third, pronominal, personal, postnominal, simple, domestic, modern, corresponding, true, least, reflexive, absolute, regular, poss, inflective, all, affectionate, final, dative, damn, damned, masculine, substantival, feminine, false, proper, complex, objective, subjective, person.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective possessive:
case, pronoun, pronouns, form, individualism, adjective, adjectives, forms, constructions, construction, love, suffix, suffixes, mother, nouns, noun, sign, plural, attitude, instinct, marker, relation, relationship, phrase, genitive, modifier, prefix, phrases, singular, determiners, determiner, prefixes, jealousy, pride, morpheme, markers, individual, warmth, apostrophe, arm, relations, sentences, investment, instincts, modifiers, ending, inflection, feeling, affixes, nps, impulses, relationships, father, desire, dative, meaning, word, passion, kiss, particle, feelings, gesture, mothers, husband, verb, classifiers, expressions, individuals, affix, parents, grip, lover, compounds, wife, endings, attributes, quantifiers, look, attitudes, impulse, affection.

Consonant match to possessive:
possess of.

Words that sound like possessive:
possessive, possessing, possessives, possesses, processive, possessory, possess, possessed, possessor, pulsive, pressive, passiv, possessively, positive, pensive, positiv, precisive, passive, recessive, plosive, possessors, peziza, permissive, oppositive, pesis, persistive, progressive, pressing, persuasive, puzzling, pulsing, oppressive, processing, pervasive, policing, pazazz, possessiveness, potosi, poseuse, pcc, processo, repossessing, pursive, borisov, possessive case, appulsive.