possessively

1. 1.

   in a possessive manner

   “he was sleeping, one arm flung possessively across his wife”

Questions about possessively

What does possessively mean?

possessively means "in a possessive manner".

How many syllables are in possessively?

possessively has 5 syllables and divides as pos-ses-si-ve-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is possessively a common word?

possessively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.