Synonyms Dictionary

2. poised, self-possessed, in control of oneself, master of one's emotions, under control; comfortable or at ease with oneself, self-assured, self-confident, sure of oneself, confident, secure; calm, cool, composed, collected, at ease, Inf. together; steady, balanced, on an even keel, in equilibrium; unflappable, inexcitable, even-tempered, imperturbable.
3. possessed of possessing, possess, having, have. See possess (defs. 1, 2). possession, n. 1. ownership, proprietorship, title, vested interest, possessorship, possessoriness, demesne, Law. domain, Archaic, aught; tenure, holding, hold, retention; occupancy, occupation, tenancy, residence, residency, inhabitance, inhabitation, habitation, habitancy, Law. commorancy; custody, keeping, care, guardianship, protection.
2. possessions belongings, holdings, effects, personal effects, chattels; paraphernalia, accouterments, appointments, appurtenances, appendages, accessories, trappings, Inf. things, Sl. stuff, Sl. junk; goods, movables, baggage, luggage, furniture; fixtures, machinery, inventories, stock, Commerce, good will; property, properties, estate, appanage, freehold, real property or estate, land, realm, Law. personalty, Law. choses; inheritance, legacy, heritge, patrimony, Law. hereditament, Law. reversion; dowry, dower, dot, Law. jointure; wealth, worth, all one's worldly goods, assets, resources, riches, fortune, money, capital, wherewithal, Disparaging, pelf. possessive, adj. 1. acquisitive, greedy, eager to own or have, covetous, desirous, envious, Sl. grabby; materialistic, possession-oriented, money-minded, capitalistic; hoarding, nonsharing, selfish, selfinterested; stingy, niggardly, ungenerous, illiberal; petty, small, mean, little.
2. tenacious, holding, grasping, clinging; jealous, distrustful, mistrustful, suspicious; domineering, controlling, overprotective; insecure, anxious, threatened. possibility, n. chance, prospect, potentiality, realm of possibility, conceivability, conceivableness; feasibility, workability, practicability; risk, hazard, gamble, off chance, outside chance, rare chance; good chance, favorable chance, odds-on chance, distinct possibility; probability, probableness, likelihood, likeliness, liability; good prospect, favorable prospect, well-grounded hope. possible, adj. 1. likely, probable, liable to be, with good odds, Inf. odds-on; potential, among the possibilities, Inf in the running, promising, hopeful.
2. feasible, reasonable, practicable, workable; doable, performable, achievable, attainable, obtainable, within reach, affordable; realizable, procurable, com-passable, accomplishable, completable.
3. conceivable, imaginable, thinkable, credible; admissible, supposable, picturable, visualizable; believable, tenable, knowable, understandable, comprehensible, apprehensible, perceivable, cognoscible. possibly, adv. perhaps, maybe, mayhap, Chiefly Dial, mayhappen, Literary, perchance, Archaic, per-adventure; haply, it may be, as the chance may be, as luck will have it, for all or aught one knows; if possible, if at all or humanly possible, God willing, if God will, Latin. Deo volente; wind and weather permitting, time and tide permitting, schedule permitting, in all likelihood, contingently. post¹, n. 1. shaft, pier, Naut. bollard, pole, pylon; picket, stake, pale, palisade, pile; prop, brace, stay, strut, shore; pillar, column, newel, stock, support, standard, stanchion, mullion, caryatid, atlas, telamon, Archit. columna caelata, upright, baluster, banister, leg.
-v. 2. affix, tack up, hang up; placard, publicize, advertise, announce, broadcast, make known, publish, Archaic, divulgate, report; circulate, propagate, disseminate; blaze abroad, noise abroad, trumpet, herald.

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Many scholars believe that an earthquake caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, referred to in the Bible as the smoke of the country. Earthquakes produce massive clouds of dust that resemble billowing smoke.      .. More >>