1. wanting to own or control something or someone
2. showing ownership or belonging
Usage: grammar

1. a word or form that shows ownership or belonging
Usage: grammar

Examples

• She became very possessive of her new boyfriend.
• The possessive mother wouldn’t let her adult son make his own decisions.
• In English, we add an apostrophe and ‘s’ to make most nouns possessive.
• The word ‘his’ is a possessive pronoun.
• Children often go through a possessive phase with their toys.
• The possessive form of ‘cat’ is ‘cat’s’.
• He was too possessive and jealous in their relationship.