possessiveadjective
uk/pəˈzes.ɪv/us/pəˈzes.ɪv/possessive adjective (PERSON)
If you are possessive about something that you own, you do not like lending it to other people or sharing it with other people:
He's pretty possessive about his iPod - I wouldn't dare ask to borrow it.
C2 Someone who is possessive in his or her feelings and behaviour towards or about another person wants to have all of that person's love and attention and will not share it with anyone else:
a possessive mother
Her boyfriend was getting too possessive so she finished with him.
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Having and owning - general words
- -owned
- attach to sb/sth
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bear
- bearer
- belong
- belong to sb
- call
- claim
- endow
- hold
- interest
- mistress
- not/never want for anything idiom
- owner
- ownership
- proprietress
- revert to sb
- stake somewhere/sth out
- want
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possessive adjective (GRAMMAR)
B1 language In grammar, a possessive word, form, etc. shows who or what something belongs to:
"Mine" and "yours"are possessive pronouns.
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Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- attributive
- collocate
- comparative
- declension
- decline
- dependent clause
- double negative
- grammar
- grammarian
- grammatical
- independent clause
- indirect object
- indirect question
- inflect
- interrogative
- modifier
- reflexive
- superlative
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