Crossword-Solution: RETENTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retentive | a. | Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory. |
| Retentive | n. | That which retains or confines; a restraint. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “RETENTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Good at absorbing | 1 answer |
| Good, as a memory. | 1 answer |
| HAVING a good memory | 1 answer |
| HAVING good memory | 1 answer |
| Absorbent | 11 answers |
| surviving | 43 answers |
| clinging | 64 answers |
| Tenacious | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETENTIVE (5)
Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.
Mahin told his story very accurately, as he had a very good memory, which was all the more retentive because of his total indifference to those with whom he had to deal.
They were as much afraid of our goods as they were of our people; and indeed they had reason: for our woollen manufactures are as retentive of infection as human bodies, and if packed up by persons infected, would receive the infection and be as dangerous to touch as a man would be that was infected; and therefore, when any English vessel arrived in foreign countries, if they did take the goods on shore, they always caused the bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose.
You have heard of Sir Rupert Norton, the great Corinthian?" The doctor was a man of wide reading with a retentive, memory.
Does it not seem as if things were fluid? They are displaced and altered in ten years so that one has difficulty, even with a memory so very vivid and retentive for that sort of thing as mine, in identifying places where one lived a long while in the past, and which one has kept piously in mind during all the interval.
Quotes with RETENTIVE (3)
Closure /klōZHər/ Noun1. The thing women tell you what they want, but secretly they really want you to tell them why you don’t want them again, so they can try one last time to convince you that you were wrong. 2. The warped mentality that having someone tell you honestly why they don’t want you is going to somehow make you feel peace, so you can move on.3. The neat packaging of finishing conversations because you have been stewing over it insecurely about the length of what …
Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she meant "mass", and made everyone, including himself, wear goggles even while mixing sugar water. Now try to imagine someone whom your teacher would hate for being anal-retentive. That is the kind of person who works for a bureau of standards and measurement.
Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1952).