1. Serving to express or indicate possession
   "possessive pronouns"
   - genitive 
2. Desirous of owning
   "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys" 
3. Having or showing a desire to control or dominate
   "a possessive parent"

1. The case expressing ownership
   - genitive, genitive case, possessive case

Derived forms: possessives

See also: acquisitive, dominant, possess, possessively, possessiveness

Type of: oblique, oblique case

Encyclopedia: Possessive

• anaemic
• anaerobe
• anaerobic
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• anaerobiotic
• anaesthesia
• anaesthesiology
• anaesthetic
• anaesthetic agent
• anaesthetise
• anaesthetist
• anaesthetize
• Anagallis
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• Anagasta
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• anaglyph
• anaglyphic
• anaglyphical
• anaglyphy
• anaglyptic
• anaglyptical
• anagnorisis
• anagnost