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单词 possessive
释义
possessive
adjective
uk
/pəˈzes.ɪv/us
/pəˈzes.ɪv/

possessiveadjective(PERSON)

If you are possessive about something that you own, you do not likelendingit to otherpeopleorsharingit with otherpeople:
不愿与人分享的
He'sprettypossessiveabouthisiPod- I wouldn'tdareasktoborrowit.他不大愿意把iPod借给别人——我都不敢开口。
C2
Someone who is possessive in his or herfeelingsandbehaviourtowards or about anotherpersonwantsto have all of that person'sloveandattentionand will notshareit with anyoneelse:
独占欲强的，占有欲强的
a possessivemother独占欲很强的母亲
Herboyfriendwas getting too possessive so shefinishedwith him.她的男友占有欲越来越强，所以她和他分手了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
jealous
  • jealousI'm so jealous that she's going to that concert!
  • enviousShe was very envious of her brother's success.
  • green with envyYou'll be green with envy when you meet her new boyfriend.
  • possessiveShe has a wildly possessive boyfriend who doesn't like her even looking at other men.
  • covetousShe's covetous of his gorgeous house.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Having and owning - general words
  • acquire
  • acquisition
  • attachsomethingtosomething
  • be endowed withsomethingidiom
  • bear
  • bearer
  • carry
  • claim
  • holder
  • lay
  • lord/master/mistress/king/queen of allyousurveyidiom
  • makesomething(all)yourownidiom
  • mistress
  • not/never want for anythingidiom
  • revert
  • revert tosomething
  • shared ownership
  • stakesomethingout
  • survey
  • they've
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Envy and jealousy

possessiveadjective(GRAMMAR)

B1language
Ingrammar, a possessive word,form, etc.showswho or what somethingbelongsto:
（语法）所有格的，物主的
"Mine" and "yours"are possessivepronouns.mine 和 yours 是物主代词。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: grammatical terms
  • ablative
  • apposition
  • appositive
  • appositively
  • attributively
  • concord
  • demonstrative
  • feminine
  • intensifier
  • nominative
  • particle
  • predicatively
  • premodifier
  • quantifier
  • regularity
  • singular
  • stative
  • syntactic
  • syntax
  • uncountable
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Grammar

Possessive’s
We use apostrophe s (’s), also called possessive ’s, as a determiner to show that something belongs to someone or something:…
Possessives withof
We can talk about possession using the pattern: noun phrase + of + possessive pronoun:…
’sorofor either?
There are some general rules about when to use ’s and when to use of but there are many cases where both are possible:…
Possession: typical errors
We don’t use ’s with plural nouns:…
(Definition ofpossessivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

possessive| American Dictionary

possessive
adjective
us
/pəˈzes·ɪv/
[not gradable]grammar
having orrelatingto thecase(=form)of a word used to show who or what somethingbelongsto

possessiveadjective(OWN)

If you are possessive about something that you own, you do not likesharingit:
He’s very possessive about hiscar.
Someone who is possessive infeelingsandbehaviortoward anotherpersonwantsall of that person’sloveandattention:
(Definition ofpossessivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpossessive

possessive
The remaining episodes concerned subject omission (5.5%), locative constructions (4%), word order (4%), and possessives (2%).
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the case of ' picture '-type nouns, possessives are ambiguous : they can be interpreted as either arguments or possessors.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Three types of constructions are set apar t from the others - existentials, possessives, and clefts.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The existence of such ambiguous examples by no means invalidates the otherwise quite clear-cut and well-motivated distinction between the two kinds of possessives.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In addition, nominals take pronominal suffixes which are interpreted as possessives.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As one of the reviewers rightly points out, these last two forms, possessives and numerals, do not necessarily mark newness.
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The possessive's definiteness/specificity is an inherent aspect of the construction as such.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There are attempts to relate the form of possessives to their function.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Also, this assumption would keep open the possibility that possessives are universally generated as arguments of nouns.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Unfortunately the data set was unsuited for a quantitative investigation of possessives with head nouns that require morphological marking.
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The spatial expressions are in fact complex prepositions that result from the grammaticalisation of particular synthetic possessives.
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When two possessives are present, the structure depicted in (59) is obtained.
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Subjective possessives imply a transitory or abstract relationship, as in, the pool's clarity or the clarity of the pool.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The results are even clearer in those areas of determination where the differences between the grammars of both languages are greater, as in the case of the possessives.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Existentials and possessives are relatively rare.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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