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possessive
adjective (PERSON) /pəˈzes.ɪv/Definition
› 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 a bit possessive about his iPod - I wouldn't dare ask to borrow it.Having and owning - general words 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.Envy and jealousy
(Definition of possessive adjective (PERSON) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Belongings and possessions
- Capturing or taking possession of things
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- Giving, bringing or getting back
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- Keeping and storing things
- Reciprocating
- Removing and getting rid of things
- Stop having or doing something
- Taking and choosing
- Taking things away from someone or somewhere
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Synonyms and related words:
- -owned suffix
- attach to sb/sth phrasal verb
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bearer noun
- belong to sb phrasal verb
- boast verb (HAVE)
- call verb (CONSIDER)
- glint verb
- hold verb (CONTROL)
- interest noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
- make sth (all) your own idiom
- mistress noun (WOMAN IN CONTROL)
- not/never want for anything idiom
- own determiner, pronoun
- owner noun
- proprietress noun
- reside in sth/sb phrasal verb
- revert to sb phrasal verb
- stake somewhere/sth out phrasal verb
- title noun (LEGAL RIGHT)
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