retentive
Adjective
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Adjective
retentive
- Having power to retain
- a retentive memory
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1 Scene 3
- Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.
- (slang, apocope) anal-retentive
retentive (plural retentives)
- (obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.
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