dispossessive

English

Etymology

From dispossess +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

dispossessive (comparative more dispossessive, superlative most dispossessive)

1. That dispossesses.
   • 2012, Matt Stahl, Unfree Masters: Popular Music and the Politics of Work‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• dispossessively