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View synonyms for retentive
retentive
/ rɪˈtɛntɪv /
adjective
- having the capacity to retain or remember
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Derived Forms
- reˈtentiveness, noun
- reˈtentively, adverb
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Other Words From
- re·tentive·ly adverb
- re·tentive·ness noun
- nonre·tentive adjective
- nonre·tentive·ly adverb
- nonre·tentive·ness noun
- unre·tentive adjective
- unre·tentive·ly adverb
- unre·tentive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of retentive1
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Example Sentences
She had an extremely retentive memory, read well, and evinced great love of reading.
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His knowledge of history, more especially of military history, was profound, and his memory was singularly retentive.
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At the start he was blest with a most marvelous and retentive memory, and a keen sense of the practical side of life.
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Success cannot be expected in a soil unduly retentive of moisture.
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He had been tolerably well educated; and being fond of reading, with a retentive memory, he possessed a good deal of information.
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