| 单词 | retentive |
| 释义 | retentive (once / 8504 pages) adj If something is retentive, it is able to hold something else, so be glad if you have a retentive mind and grab a sponge if you need something retentive to sop up water. Retentive is closely related to the word, retain. Both words come from the Latin retinere which means to hold back. If you are a farmer, it's good to know how water-retentive your soil is, or how much water it can hold and store. How much information can your brain hold and store? For someone with a retentive mind or memory or eye, it's quite a lot! WORD FAMILYretentive: retentively, retentiveness, retentivity, unretentive+/retain: retained, retainer, retaining, retains, retention, retentive/retainer: retainers/retention: retentions USAGE EXAMPLESThe Heuft oven uses thermal oil that’s extremely heat retentive. Wall Street Journal(Jul 27, 2016) Patsy archly described someone as so anal retentive “she couldn’t sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture!” Wall Street Journal(Jul 12, 2016) When someone is categorized as being anal retentive it refers to Freud’s anal psychosexual stage. Salon(Mar 30, 2016) 1adj having the capacity to retain something 2adj having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water soils retentive of moisture Syn impermeable preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through 3adj good at remembering a retentive mind Syn|Ant long, recollective, tenacious aware, mindful bearing in mind; attentive to forgetful, short, unretentive (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range forgetful, mindless, unmindfulnot mindful or attentive |
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