retentive
pronunciation
How to pronounce retentive in British English:
UK [rɪˈtentɪv]
How to pronounce retentive in American English:
US [rɪˈtɛntɪv]
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- Adjective:
- tending to retain
Word Origin
- retentive (adj.)
- late 14c., "able to hold or keep" (mental or physical), from Old French retentif, from Medieval Latin retentivus, from past participle stem of Latin retinere (see retain). Related: Retentively; retentiveness.
Example
- 1. The retentive price set by the trustee ;
- 2. Retentive force and performance of magnetic attachment .
- 3. Article 28 an trustee has the right to set the retentive price of an auction target to the auctioneer .
- 4. Article 50 should an auction target have no retentive price , an auctioneer shall make this clear before an auction .
- 5. The memory is sometimes so retentive , so serviceable , so obedient ; at others , so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again , so tyrannic , so beyond control !