Home › Words › U › unpossessunpossessunpossess means to be without, or to resign, possession of.EtymologyFrom un- + possess.verbTo be without, or to resign, possession of.e.g.“This is a farce. Since when did I receive the gun (which is possessing it) and then unpossess it, and, then possess it again (all from 1984 to 1985) .” — 1995, Kuffel V. United States of America, page 90:To free from an obsession that has taken hold of (someone)e.g.“The hold that is given over I unpossess, so hangeth now in balance Of war my peace, reward of all my pain, At Mountzon thus I restless rest in Spain.” — 1879, Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, page 176:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.unpossessing 75% match — Lacking possessions; poor. vs unpossess →possessionless 74% match — Without possessions. vs unpossess →possessionlessness 67% match — The state or condition of having no possessions. vs unpossess →undispossessed 66% match — Not dispossessed. vs unpossess →dispossessive 65% match — That dispossesses. vs unpossess →dispossessee 64% match — One who is dispossessed. vs unpossess →dispossessedness 64% match — Quality of being dispossessed. vs unpossess →dispossess 63% match — To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them. vs unpossess →