retentive
adjective
tending or serving to retain something.
unretentive
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a word derived from
retentive.
Example Sentences
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"It was nae sic thing," said Madge, whose unretentive memory let out, in the eagerness of contradiction, all that she would have most wished to keep concealed, had her judgment been equal to her inclination.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
The old Danaïde only saw an opportunity for pouring another people into her ill-made and unretentive cask.
From The Roman Question by Edmond About
