POSSESS Antonyms

• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

• financially ruined

• reduce to bankruptcy

• unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences

• poor enough to need help from others

• completely wanting or lacking

• completely wanting or lacking

• physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

• poor enough to need help from others

• destroyed financially

• poor enough to need help from others

• inadequate in amount or degree

• nonexistent

• on the negative side or lower end of a scale

• an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

• involving disadvantage or harm

• needy people collectively

• poor enough to need help from others

• demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

• not having enough money to pay for necessities

• having little money or few possessions

• characterized by or indicating poverty

• lacking in quality or substances

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• deserving or inciting pity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• not equipped with what is needed especially furniture

• nonexistent

• inadequate in amount or degree

• Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.

• Lacking something.

• In prostitution: without a condom being worn.

• Outside of, beyond.

• Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.

• Not doing or not having done something.

• Unless, except (introducing a clause).