Synonym: long, recollective, tenacious. Similar words: retention, pretentious, pretentiously, attentive, pretentiousness, attentively, inattentive, detention. Meaning: [rɪ'tentɪv] 
adj. 1. good at remembering 2. having the capacity to retain something 3. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water.
adj. 1. good at remembering 2. having the capacity to retain something 3. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water. 
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1. Luke had an amazingly retentive memory.
2. She has an amazingly retentive memory.
3. Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage.
4. Soil should be rich and moisture retentive, but free-draining.
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5. He had a very retentive memory.
6. He had a highly retentive memory and was an accomplished and lively speaker.
7. This gives a moisture retentive medium, but allows excess water to drain from the roots.
8. Is good intention affection how retentive?
9. Non-combustible gases should be passed through micro-organism retentive filters.
10. He has a very retentive memory.
11. So, as moisture retentive agent, fucoidan would be well applied in the future.
12. Virgos have highly retentive minds and therefore make excellent editors, researchers and teachers.
13. Dolores Umbridge: [ standing with her Inquisitorial unit retentive Cho river hostage ] Get them!
14. The retentive peculiarity of soluble enriched uranium UO2F2 in subcellular level was studied by electron microscopic autoradiography.
15. The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.
16. In this setting(sentencedict.com), efforts should also be made to correct the underlying sodium retentive disorder.
17. Both of the timer LOGO! and STEP7 have the function of on-delay, off-delay, retentive on-delay and edge-triggered interval time-delay. LOGO!
18. Conclusion It's practical to utilize human mandible as the model to measure retentive force of clasps.
19. Gerry Conlon : What I advert most most my immatureness is retentive your hand.
20. He is a scholar who has wide learning and a retentive memory.
21. I'm not going to miss upgrading software all the time. I'm not going to miss being anal retentive about backing up all my files.
22. Fibrous ridges pose a prosthodontic challenge for the achievement of stable and retentive dental prostheses.
23. Guanidyl acetic acid chitosan has been synthesized with self-made chitosan and 1-chloro-glycocyamine, and its hydroscopicity and moisture retentive ability have been measured consequently.
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