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The synonyms of “Possessive” are: genitive, proprietorial, overprotective, clinging, controlling, dominating, jealous, grasping, greedy, acquisitive, covetous, selfish, genitive case, possessive case
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “possessive” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| genitive | The genitive case. |
| genitive case | The case expressing ownership. |
| possessive case | The case expressing ownership. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “possessive” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| acquisitive | Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things. We live in a competitive and acquisitive society. |
| clinging | (of a garment) fitting closely to the body and showing its shape. She wasn t the clinging type. |
| controlling | Able to control or determine policy. A controlling interest in the firm. |
| covetous | Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else. Jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions. |
| dominating | Most powerful or important or influential. Looked up at the castle dominating the countryside. |
| genitive | Relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association. The genitive endings. |
| grasping | Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. Grasping commercialism. |
| greedy | Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume. He s scoffed the lot the greedy pig. |
| jealous | Feeling or showing a resentful suspicion that one’s partner is attracted to or involved with someone else. A jealous husband. |
| overprotective | Overly protective. Overprotective parents. |
| proprietorial | Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive. Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way. |
| selfish | Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others- Maria Weston Chapman. I joined them for selfish reasons. |
| accusative | The accusative case. Accusative endings. |
| acquisitive | Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas. An acquisitive mind. |
| adverb | A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective verb or other adverb or a word group expressing a relation of place time circumstance manner cause degree etc e g gently quite then there. |
| avarice | Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins. He was rich beyond the dreams of avarice. |
| covetousness | An envious eagerness to possess something. |
| cupidity | Greed for money or possessions. New wealth however tainted by cupidity and egoism tends to be favourable for the arts. |
| ego | (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind. He needed a boost to his ego. |
| egocentric | An egocentric person. Egocentric loners with an overinflated sense of self worth. |
| egoism | The theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality. |
| egotism | The fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself. In his arrogance and egotism he underestimated Gill. |
| egotist | A person who is excessively conceited or absorbed in themselves; a self-seeker. He is a self absorbed egotist. |
| genitive | The genitive case. The genitive endings. |
| grasping | The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles. They were regarded as grasping landlords. |
| greed | Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins. Mercenaries who had allowed greed to overtake their principles. |
| greedy | (often followed by `for’) ardently or excessively desirous. Greedy for money and power. |
| hubris | Overbearing pride or presumption. The self assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s. |
| lecherous | Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire. A lecherous good for nothing. |
| locative | The locative case. |
| obsession | The state of being obsessed with someone or something. She cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession. |
| predatory | Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. She always felt at the mercy of predatory men. |
| prehensile | (chiefly of an animal’s limb or tail) capable of grasping. Prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees. |
| rapacious | Excessively greedy and grasping. Rapacious landlords. |
| raptorial | Relating to or characteristic of birds of prey. Raptorial birds. |
| ravening | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. They turned on each other like ravening wolves. |
| selfish | Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others- Maria Weston Chapman. I joined them for selfish reasons. |
| sordid | Unethical or dishonest. The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils. |
| unscrupulous | Without scruples or principles. Unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants. |
| usury | An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest. The medieval prohibition on usury. |
| vanity | The quality of being worthless or futile. It flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him. |
| vocative | A word in the vocative case. Vocative verb endings. |
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