Synonyms

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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.