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What is the adjective for possessing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs possess and possession which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

possessive
  1. Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
  2. (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
  3. Unwilling to yield possession of.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “My in-laws enraged me because I was unjust, possessive and ungenerous. But gradually, I became aware that my own nastiness was readily matched by others where in-laws were concerned.”
      “She is much more concerned with leading an autonomous life, a fact that also prompts her to end the relationship with her possessive boyfriend.”
possessed
  1. controlled by evil spirits.
  2. Seized by powerful emotions.
  3. (construed with of, not comparable) Having; owning.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “During the experiment, state-of-the-art neuro-imaging technology will be used to monitor the brain activity of a supposedly possessed man.”
      “Steiner barged in one morning, ranting like a man possessed.”
      “Even while still a teenager, friends recalled that he had always looked calm, poised, and possessed.”
possessory
  1. Of, pertaining to, having or arising from possession.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He described it as a proprietary right and the rights of the individual members of the clan or group were the possessory or usufructuary rights.”
      “The trial decision is about equitable possessory title and the court of appeal said that doesn't exist.”
      “To take account of this, the system provides for a possessory title to be upgraded to absolute title after it has been registered for 12 years.”
possessionary
  1. Of or pertaining to possession.
possessional
  1. Relating to possession.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Till that first goal from Toure, the match had very little significance with both teams content with possessional play.”
      “My style is a mixture of where I come from in Holland, based on good possessional play but with an attacking intent.”
possessionless
  1. Without possessions.
  2. Examples:
    1. “They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future.”
      “The highest ideal in Jainism is the wandering, possessionless, and passionless ascetic, which is why jinas are always depicted as mendicants or yogis.”
      “Ockham argued that Pope John XXII was a heretic because he denied that Jesus and the Apostles were possessionless.”
possessable
  1. That can be possessed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Many languages, such as the Maasai language, distinguish between the possessable and the unpossessable.”
possessing
possessioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of possession
possessioning
  1. present participle of possession
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