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genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case

n. the case expressing ownership

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possessive

adj. desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"

possessive

adj. having or showing a desire to control or dominate; "a possessive parent"

possessive, genitive

adj. serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings"

grudging, niggardly, scrimy

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"

selfish

adj. concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

accumulative

adj. marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society"

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

plundering

adj. given to taking by force what is desired

predaceous, predacious, predatory

adj. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton

rapacious, ravening, voracious

adj. excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

ascendant, ascendent, dominating

adj. most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"

controlling

adj. able to control or determine policy; "a controlling interest in the firm"

governing

adj. responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws; "governing bodies"

overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating

adj. having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"

sovereign, supreme

adj. greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal"

superior

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by; "overcome by a superior opponent"; "trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"

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