retentive

1. 1.

   good at remembering

   “a retentive mind”

   “tenacious memory”

   Synonymsrecollectivelongtenacious

   Antonymsunretentive
2. 2.

   having the capacity to retain something
3. 3.

   having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water

   “soils retentive of moisture”

   Similarimpermeable

Questions about retentive

What does retentive mean?

retentive means "good at remembering". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retentive?

retentive has 3 syllables: re-ten-tive. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for retentive?

Close synonyms include recollective, long, tenacious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of retentive?

The recorded antonyms are unretentive.

Is retentive a common word?

retentive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.