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UK
/ɹɪtˈɛntɪv/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water
soils retentive of moisture -
good at remembering
a retentive mind
tenacious memory - having the capacity to retain something
How To Use retentive In A Sentence
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- Anything material can be destroyed, but thought is retentive and has accumulated throughout Time.
- He is a scholar who has wide learning and a retentive memory.
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- In addition, the rain forests are restricted to dolerite-derived red clay soils, which are highly moisture retentive. Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
- But good crops of alfalfa may be grown on subsoils so retentive that underdrainage is necessary to facilitate the escape of an excess of moisture with sufficient quickness. Clovers and How to Grow Them
- To wit: ever since I've been working here on my own devoid of any human contact, I've been turning into a small-minded tight-fisted anal-retentive mentalist.
- A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness". Will policy makers never learn from past mistakes?
- He's not obliged to like her ” some people don't, as he points out ” but it is only fair to let your readers know that she has a thoroughly first-rate mind (not just "jaggedly sharp") and a phenomenal (not merely "retentive") memory. Life with Picasso
- In fact, these wires are not just twisted together in a sensible, civilized manner, they are wound tight enough to make an anal-retentive boy-scout proud, and then they are doubled over and twisted again. Archive 2009-12-01