Exact Match:
- retentive
- having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water; "soils retentive of moisture"
- good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
- having the capacity to retain something
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- absorbing,
- arresting,
- attractive,
- clinging,
- compelling,
- compulsive,
- consuming,
- driving,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- engrossing,
- enthralling,
- fascinating,
- grasping,
- holding,
- hypnotic,
- impelling,
- keeping,
- magnetic,
- mesmeric,
- mesmerizing,
- obsessing,
- obsessional,
- obsessive,
- possessing,
- preoccupying,
- retentive,
- spellbinding,
- tenacious
- evocative
collapse - serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" related words >
- arousing,
- causing,
- educible,
- eductive,
- elicitory,
- eradicative,
- exacting,
- exactive,
- extortionary,
- extortionate,
- extortive,
- extractive,
- in retrospect,
- inducing,
- meaningful,
- memoried,
- mindful,
- mnemonic,
- pregnant,
- producing,
- redolent,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- suggestive,
- uprooting,
- weighty
- retrospective
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- an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
- concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification" related words >
- a priori,
- back,
- backward,
- demonstration,
- display,
- early,
- enactment,
- evocative,
- ex post facto,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- in retrospect,
- into the past,
- memoried,
- mindful,
- mnemonic,
- opening,
- ostentation,
- performance,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- production,
- projection,
- recollected,
- redolent,
- reexperienced,
- relived,
- remembered,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- representation,
- restored,
- retentive,
- retroactive,
- revived,
- show,
- showing,
- suggestive,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage
- ambrosial,
- aromatic,
- balmy,
- effluvious,
- essenced,
- evocative,
- flowery,
- fragrant,
- fruity,
- in retrospect,
- incense-breathing,
- malodorous,
- memoried,
- mindful,
- mnemonic,
- musky,
- odorant,
- odorate,
- odored,
- odoriferous,
- odorous,
- perfumed,
- perfumy,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- savory,
- scented,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smellsome,
- smelly,
- spicy,
- suggestive,
- suggestive of,
- sweet,
- sweet-scented,
- sweet-smelling,
- thuriferous
- retention
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- the act of retaining something related words >
- abnegation,
- adhesiveness,
- bullheadedness,
- camera-eye,
- cohesiveness,
- consistency,
- contradiction,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dissent,
- eidetic memory,
- gluiness,
- glutinosity,
- gumminess,
- holding back,
- memory span,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- obstinacy,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- photographic memory,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- retentive memory,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- snugness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stickiness,
- stubbornness,
- tackiness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- thumbs-down,
- tightness,
- total memory,
- total recall,
- toughness,
- turndown,
- unwillingness,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- withholding
- grasping
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- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
- understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" related words >
- a hog for,
- acquiring,
- acquisitive,
- acquisitiveness,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- ambitious for self,
- autistic,
- avarice,
- avaricious,
- avariciousness,
- avid,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- bloodsucking,
- bottomless,
- careerist,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clinging,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- covetousness,
- crying,
- cupidity,
- demanding,
- desirous,
- devouring,
- draining,
- egotistical,
- esurient,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- frenzy of desire,
- fury of desire,
- gluttonous,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- greedy,
- gripping,
- hoggish,
- hoggishness,
- holding,
- importunate,
- incontinence,
- individualistic,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable,
- insatiable desire,
- insatiate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intemperateness,
- itching palm,
- itchy,
- keeping,
- limitless,
- loud,
- lupine,
- lust,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- narcissistic,
- niggardly,
- omnivorous,
- overgreediness,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- persistent,
- personalistic,
- pertinacious,
- piggish,
- piggishness,
- possessive,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- prehensile,
- pressing,
- privatistic,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ravenousness,
- remote,
- retentive,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- selfish,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- sordidness,
- stingy,
- swinish,
- swinishness,
- taxing,
- tenacious,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- urgent,
- venal,
- voracious,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- wolfishness
- keeping
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- conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" related words >
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adherence,
- adjustment,
- administration,
- agreement,
- auspices,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- bottling up,
- care,
- carrying out,
- charge,
- clinging,
- compliance,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- conservational,
- conservationism,
- conservationist,
- conservative,
- conservatory,
- conserving,
- consistency,
- conventionality,
- corking up,
- correspondence,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- discharge,
- dynamic symmetry,
- environmental conservation,
- equality,
- equilibrium,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- execution,
- finish,
- flexibility,
- forest conservation,
- forest management,
- fulfillment,
- governance,
- government,
- grasping,
- gripping,
- guardianship,
- guarding,
- guidance,
- hands,
- harmony,
- heed,
- heeding,
- hold,
- holding,
- holding in,
- inhibition,
- jurisdiction,
- keep,
- line,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- malleability,
- management,
- ministry,
- multilateral symmetry,
- obedience,
- observance,
- observation,
- orthodoxy,
- oversight,
- parallelism,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- performance,
- pliancy,
- polarity,
- practice,
- prehension,
- preserval,
- preservation,
- preservative,
- preservatory,
- preserving,
- preventive custody,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- protection,
- protective,
- protective custody,
- protectorship,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- regularity,
- repression,
- respect,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentive,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- safe hands,
- safekeeping,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- satisfaction,
- saving,
- shapeliness,
- soil conservation,
- stewardship,
- stream conservation,
- strictness,
- support,
- suppression,
- sustentation,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- tenacious,
- tenacity,
- traditionalism,
- trilateral symmetry,
- trust,
- tutelage,
- uniformity,
- upkeep,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- water conservation,
- wetlands conservation,
- wildlife conservation,
- wing
- mindful
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- bearing in mind; attentive to; "ever mindful of her health"; "mindful of his responsibilities"; "mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive to,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all-knowing,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- appreciative of,
- apprehending,
- apprehensive,
- apprised of,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- au courant,
- awake,
- awake to,
- aware,
- aware of,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- cognizant,
- cognizant of,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- comprehending,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- conscious of,
- considerate,
- constant,
- conversant,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- evocative,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- haunted,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hep to,
- hesitant,
- in retrospect,
- in the know,
- in the secret,
- indulgent,
- informed of,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- let into,
- loving,
- loyal,
- memoried,
- meticulous,
- mindful of,
- mindful of others,
- mnemonic,
- nagged,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no stranger to,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- obsessed,
- omniscient,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on the lookout,
- on to,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- plagued,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prehensile,
- privy to,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- rankled,
- redolent,
- regardful,
- remembering,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- safe,
- sagacious,
- scrupulous,
- seized of,
- sensible,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- shrewd,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- streetwise,
- suggestive,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unable to forget,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- undeceived,
- understanding,
- unenterprising,
- unmindful,
- unprecipitate,
- vigilant,
- watchful,
- wise,
- wise to
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- based on,
- bawdy,
- blue,
- broad,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- conclusive,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- definable,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- determinative,
- diagnostic,
- dirty,
- documentary,
- documented,
- earthy,
- emblematic,
- erotic,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- evocative,
- ex parte,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- figural,
- figurative,
- final,
- firsthand,
- founded on,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- immodest,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- implicit,
- improper,
- in retrospect,
- incontrovertible,
- indecent,
- indelicate,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- ironic,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- lewd,
- lusty,
- material,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- memoried,
- metaphorical,
- mindful,
- mnemonic,
- naming,
- naughty,
- nuncupative,
- off color,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- overwhelming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pornographic,
- pregnant,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- provocative,
- prurient,
- purple,
- racy,
- raunchy,
- readable,
- redolent,
- referential,
- reliable,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- representative,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- ribald,
- risky,
- risque,
- rude,
- salacious,
- salty,
- scabrous,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- sexy,
- shady,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- smutty,
- spicy,
- substantial,
- suggestive of,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- transferred,
- typical,
- unseemly,
- valid,
- vivid,
- vulgar,
- weighty,
- wicked
- absolute interest,
- absorbing,
- adverse possession,
- alodium,
- arresting,
- attractive,
- bearing,
- benefit,
- blessed with,
- block,
- board lot,
- bolstering,
- bottling up,
- bracing,
- burdened,
- burgage,
- buttressing,
- carrying,
- claim,
- clinging,
- colony,
- common,
- compelling,
- compulsive,
- consuming,
- contingent interest,
- corking up,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- dependency,
- derivative title,
- driving,
- dummy share,
- easement,
- enchanting,
- enfeoffed,
- engaging,
- engrossing,
- enthralling,
- equitable interest,
- equity,
- estate,
- even lot,
- fascinating,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- fiefdom,
- fractional lot,
- frankalmoign,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- full lot,
- gavelkind,
- grasping,
- gripping,
- having,
- having and holding,
- having title to,
- hold,
- holding in,
- holdings,
- hypnotic,
- impelling,
- in possession of,
- inhibition,
- interest,
- keeping,
- knight service,
- landed,
- landholding,
- landowning,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- limitation,
- locking in,
- lot,
- magnetic,
- maintaining,
- maintenance,
- mandate,
- master of,
- mesmeric,
- mesmerizing,
- obsessing,
- obsessional,
- obsessive,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- occupying,
- odd lot,
- original title,
- owning,
- part,
- percentage,
- possessed of,
- possessing,
- possession,
- preference share,
- prehension,
- preoccupancy,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupying,
- prepossession,
- prescription,
- preservation,
- propertied,
- property,
- property rights,
- property-owning,
- propping,
- proprietary rights,
- repression,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentive,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- right,
- right of entry,
- round lot,
- seisin,
- seized of,
- settlement,
- share,
- shoring,
- socage,
- spellbinding,
- squatting,
- stake,
- stockholding,
- stockholdings,
- strict settlement,
- sublease,
- supporting,
- supportive,
- suppression,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- tenacious,
- tenacity,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- tenured,
- title,
- trust,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- upholding,
- use,
- usucapion,
- vested interest,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- villenage,
- worth
- adamant,
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulldoggy,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- cartilaginous,
- case-hardened,
- chewy,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clinging,
- clingy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cohesive,
- committed,
- constant,
- continuing,
- coriaceous,
- curdled,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- doughy,
- durable,
- earnest,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- fixed,
- game,
- gamy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- good,
- gooey,
- grasping,
- gripping,
- gristly,
- gritty,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hard,
- hardheaded,
- hardy,
- headstrong,
- heavy,
- holding,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inflexible,
- insistent,
- inspissated,
- intolerant,
- intransigent,
- invincible,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- keeping,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- loyal,
- maintaining,
- mettlesome,
- mucilaginous,
- mulish,
- nervy,
- never-tiring,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- pasty,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pigheaded,
- plodding,
- plucky,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- purposeful,
- rapt,
- red-blooded,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- restive,
- retaining,
- retentive,
- rigid,
- ropy,
- secure,
- sedulous,
- self-adhesive,
- self-willed,
- serious,
- set,
- sincere,
- sinewy,
- single-minded,
- slabby,
- sleepless,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- slogging,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- stable,
- stalwart,
- starchy,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stickable,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- stodgy,
- stout,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tight,
- tireless,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- true,
- unabating,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unshakable,
- unshakeable,
- unshaken,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- weariless,
- wholehearted,
- willful,
- wiry
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