dispossessive

English

Etymology

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:
      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.
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