Adjective:

धारन करने की शक्तिवाला, धारणा शक्तिवाला,

retentive's Usage Examples:

I used to be anally retentive, then I lost my ass, Cheers, Gerry.

They have a remarkable quickness of apprehension, a ready wit, a retentive memory, combined, however, with religious pride and hypocrisy, and a disregard for the truth.

He was a good palaeographer, and excelled in textual criticism, in examination of authorship, and other such matters, while his vast erudition and retentive memory made him second to none in interpretation and exposition.

Steel is much more retentive of magnetism than any ordinary iron, and some form of steel is now always used for making artificial magnets.

If too closely packed, the soil particles present mechanical obstacles to growth; if too retentive of moisture, the root-hairs suffer, as already hinted; if too open or over-drained, the plant succumbs to drought.

If any rock be taken (even a piece of pure quartz) and crushed to a very fine powder, it will show some of the peculiarities of clays; for example, it will be plastic, retentive of moisture, impermeable to water, and will shrink to some extent if the moist mass be kneaded, and then allowed to dry.

Speaking generally, clay soils retentive of moisture produce heavy-cropping tobaccos which cure to a dark brown or red colour.

He had a most retentive memory and a very keen power of observation.

An uneven subsoil, especially if retentive, is most undesirable, as water is apt to collect in the hollows, and thus affect the upper soil.

What a wonderfully active and retentive mind that gifted child must have!

Synonyms:

recollective, aware, mindful, tenacious, long,

Antonyms:

sound, scarce, improvident, unmindful, unretentive,