Retentive is valid Scrabble Word

Is retentive a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is retentive valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for RETENTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

as in anal retentive, an emotionally constipated person
That which retains or confines; a restraint.

ADJECTIVE:

tending to retain
(of a substance) able to absorb and hold moisture
serving to keep something in place.
capable of retaining or remembering
Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
good at remembering
having the capacity to retain something
having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water

(of a person's memory) effective in retaining facts and impressions

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

having the power, property, or capacity of retaining; retaining knowledge easily

Words related to RETENTIVE

retentively17 retentiveness16 retentives13

Words that contain RETENTIVE

retentives13 irretentive14 retentively17 unretentive14 retentiveness16 irretentiveness18 retentivenesses18

How to use RETENTIVE in a sentence

His memory was remarkably retentive, his imagination uncommonly vigorous, and his judgement keen and penetrating.
As a matter of fact their memory is extremely retentive of favours.
His great powers of memory, characteristic of a mind singularly retentive of all impressions, were early developed.
And now, driven into the corner which he had hoped to avoid, his retentive memory brought back a circumstance well-nigh forgotten.
He had a tolerably retentive memory, and the quantity that he read was surprising.
Possessing a retentive memory, he learned the whole of the three Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and part of John.
He had, indeed, a quick observation and a retentive memory.
The great difference in the retentive power of different subjects is, as we should expect, very evident.
This lack of retentive power is illustrated particularly well in the cases often found where the student has difficulty in learning to spell.
Sedgwick was very greatly interested, and with his retentive memory the facts were fixed upon his mind.

Beyond my gift for pleading and a retentive memory, I have no real talents for a successful legal career.
As they worked together the father had explained to the son what he did, and why he did it, The results of their work spoke for themselves, and Hiram had a retentive memory.
The gallant officer said a good deal about its retentive properties to the mute boot.
But these soils must not be so retentive as to collect and hold water for any considerable time within a few feet of the surface.
But on loam soils with a reasonably retentive subsoil, the better way to apply farmyard manure is to make a heavy application of the same to the crop preceding the alfalfa.
This will only happen in soil with a subsoil more retentive than is compatible with well-doing of the highest order in the plants.
And his memory was more retentive of horses than of men.
Possessed of a remarkably retentive memory, he could repeat some of the longest poems in the language.
From his mother, brothers and sisters my father learned many personal reminiscences of his father and his exceptionally retentive memory enabled him to relate them accurately.
He had a very retentive memory, but it was no aid to correct reasoning.
In the great drought, 36 years ago, we saw in a very retentive soil in the Vale of Belvoir, cracks which it was not very pleasant to ride among.
It is found in practice that the first foot in depth of retentive soils is more retentive than that which lies below.
A farmer manures a field of four or five inches of free soil reposing on a retentive clay, and sows it with wheat.
He had no map, but he had the Plough and a fitful moon to guide him, and he held a clear notion of the disposition of the trenches in his retentive brain.
An emphasis on, or an improvement in, the use of any one of these factors may call into play to a greater extent than before the native retentive power of a given child.
It is doubly important if the retentive power is weak.
Henry, of the acute eye and retentive mind, took a second look.
This applies to a small portion of the Kooasur plantation, which receives the drainage of the adjoining hills, and the soil being retentive, keeps the water.
A strong dark loam, a gravelly, sandy, or clayey soil, but one not retentive of moisture, seems that best suited for its successful culture.
He had traveled extensively, was a close observer, and had a retentive memory.

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