Retentive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the quality, power, or capacity of retaining.
  • adj. Having the ability or capacity to retain knowledge or information with ease: a retentive memory.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
  • n. That which retains or confines; a restraint.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having power to retain.
  • n. That which retains or confines; a restraint.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to hold or confine; restraining; confining.
  • Retaining; having the power to keep or preserve: as, a body retentive of heat or of magnetism; the retentive force of the stomach.
  • Specifically, in psychology, retaining presentations or ideas; capable of preserving mental presentations.
  • n. That which restrains or confines; a restraint.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having the capacity to retain something
  • adj. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water
  • adj. good at remembering
    • Equivalent
    impermeable   
    Cross Reference
    retentive faculty   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    restraint   
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    suggestible    prescient    lifelike    long-lived    receptive   
     
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