Meanings
adjectivedispossessive (comparative more dispossessive, superlative most dispossessive)
comparative more dispossessive · superlative most dispossessive
- That dispossesses.
Work for hire is a way of making these workers submit to the kind of routine, dispossessive, political, and legal alienation to which most other working people have been long accustomed.
2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dispossessive
progressiveimpressiveaggressiveexcessivesuccessiveexpressiveobsessivedepressiveoppressiverepressivecompressiverecessiveimmunosuppressiveregressivepossessivesuppressiveautoregressiveunimpressiveantidepressivetransgressiveretrogressivepressiveprocessivedigressive
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APA
dispossessive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispossessive
MLA
“dispossessive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispossessive. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dispossessive,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispossessive.
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