I. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I broke up with Lyle because he was as possessive as a two-year-old.
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She is extremely possessive about her university friends, and doesn't ;like them mixing independently with her workmates.
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She was too possessive , always wanting to know where I was, who I was with.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For instance, she was possessive of our eldest son and I wasn't allowed to go near him.
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He could also be very possessive , especially towards women.
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Her mouth was being taken with a possessive intensity that obliterated thought and left only sensation.
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I felt possessive about those bands, and felt jealous when other people wrote about them.
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Meredith felt breathlessness claim her as his possessive arms wrapped around her once more.
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She: Why are you so possessive ?
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Similarly, older children's possessive impulse would now not be seen as an instinct for ownership perse.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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So, in fact, what she ends up with is this possessive which is used and a possessive is definite.
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Whereas if it shows up as a possessive , it might not.