Synonyms of the word possessive


POSSESSIVEACQUISITIVE - DOMINANT - GENITIVE - OBLIQUE

possessive

  • adj. Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
  • adj. (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
  • adj. Unwilling to yield possession of.
  • n. (grammar) The possessive case.
  • n. (grammar) A word used to indicate the possessive case.

acquisitive

  • adj. (obsolete) Acquired.
  • adj. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
  • adj. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

dominant

  • n. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G…
  • n. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
  • n. (genetics) A gene that is dominant.
  • n. A species or organism that is dominant.
  • n. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
  • adj. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
  • adj. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
  • adj. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.

genitive

  • adj. (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses…
  • n. (grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership…
  • n. (grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

oblique

  • adj. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
  • adj. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
  • adj. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
  • adj. (botany) Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
  • adj. (botany) Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
  • adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
  • adj. (music) Employing one of the three contrapuntal motions, namely, 1. Parallel, 2. Contrary and 3. Oblique…
  • n. (geometry) An oblique line.
  • n. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
  • n. (grammar) The oblique case.
  • v. (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
  • v. (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

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