Possessive - English meaning

Possessive – definitions in English dictionary

adjective
Demanding someone's total attention and love.
Usage examples:
Has he become jealous or possessive?
Synonims:
Proprietorial Overprotective Clinging Controlling Dominating Jealous
adjective
Relating to or denoting the case of nouns and pronouns expressing possession.
Usage examples:
It's a relational noun, which means that a possessive shows who the noun relates to.

noun
A possessive word or form.
Usage examples:
Prenominal possessives (john's car, my hat) normally function as definite expressions.

Possessive translation into English

Possessive: translate from English into Chinese

所有格, 所有的, 占有的

Possessive: translate from English into Dutch

Bezittelijk, Bezittelijk voornaamwoord, Aanmatigend, Tweede naamval, Bezit-

Possessive: translate from English into French

Possessif

Possessive: translate from English into German

Besitzergreifend, Possessiv, Eifersüchtig, Habgierig, Eigen

Possessive: translate from English into Hindi

मालिकाना, स्वामिगत, अधिकार-संबंधी, संबंध-वाचक, अधिकारात्‍मक, आधिपत्‍य संबंधी, सं‍बंधवाचक

Possessive: translate from English into Italian

Possessivo, Opprimente

Possessive: translate from English into Korean

소유격, 소유의, 소유욕의, 소유욕이 강한

Possessive: translate from English into Russian

Притяжательный падеж, Притяжательный, Собственнический, Притяжательное местоимение

Possessive: translate from English into Spanish

Posesivo

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Possessive – similar words

possessed

adjective
(of a person) completely controlled by an evil spirit.
Usage examples:
She ran like a possessed person

verb
Have as belonging to one; own.
Usage examples:
I do not possess a television set

adjective
To own something or have something as a quality
Usage examples:
He was possessed of a large fortune, but sadly no brains to speak of.

Possessed - all meanings in English

possessable

adjective
Able to be possessed.

Possessable - all meanings in English

possess

verb
Have as belonging to one; own.
Usage examples:
I do not possess a television set

verb
To have or own something, or to have a particular quality
Usage examples:
Those states are the countries that possess nuclear weapons., she possesses the unusual talent of k…

verb
To have or own something
Usage examples:
More than five million german households possess exercise equipment., these bonds possess many favo…

Possess - all meanings in English

Possessive synonims

clinging

adjective
(of a garment) fitting closely to the body and showing its shape.
Usage examples:
She was wearing a clinging black dress

verb
Hold on tightly to.
Usage examples:
She clung to joe's arm

adjective
A clinging person stays close to and depends on a person who is taking care of them
Usage examples:
Up to the time she started school, her daughter was very clinging., a very clinging and demanding e…

Clinging - all meanings in English

controlling

verb
Determine the behaviour or supervise the running of.
Usage examples:
He was appointed to control the company's marketing strategy

noun
The power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events.
Usage examples:
The whole operation is under the control of a production manager

noun
A person or thing used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment.
Usage examples:
Platelet activity was higher in patients with the disease than in the controls

Controlling - all meanings in English

dominating

verb
Have power and influence over.
Usage examples:
The company dominates the market for operating system software

adjective
Being the largest, most important, most noticeable, or the best person or thing
Usage examples:
The other dominating issue is mps' expenses., in the third set, nadal was quickly back to his domin…

Dominating - all meanings in English

jealous

adjective
Feeling or showing an envious resentment of someone or their achievements, possessions, or perceived advantages.
Usage examples:
She was always jealous of me

Jealous - all meanings in English

overprotective

adjective
Having a tendency to protect someone, especially a child, excessively.
Usage examples:
It may be that parents are just being overprotective

Overprotective - all meanings in English

proprietorial

adjective
Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive.
Usage examples:
Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way

Proprietorial - all meanings in English

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