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Meanings of retentive in English
Usage of retentive in English
1
This will give you an idea of the retentive memory she possesses.
2
The soil should be of a vegetable character and retentive of moisture.
3
The queen reads these accounts carefully and has a most retentive memory.
4
Walnuts will do well providing the soil or subsoil is retentive enough.
5
This is true, no matter how strong the retentive power may be.
6
He would repeat poetry by the hour, having a very retentive memory.
7
He had a very retentive memory for their troubles and their needs.
8
Henry, of the acute eye and retentive mind, took a second look.
9
Another thing which specially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.
10
Another thing which especially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.
11
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
12
Diana had a fairly retentive memory, and learned poetry without much trouble.
13
No one had a more retentive memory, or a more observant mind.
14
The doctor was a man of wide reading with a retentive, memory.
15
What a wonderfully active and retentive mind that gifted child must have!
16
Anal-retentive players will tighten their sphincters with joy at the level of detail.
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Retentive through the time
Retentive across language varieties
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