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PRONUNCIATION OF ANAL RETENTIVE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANAL RETENTIVE

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determiner
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Anal retentive can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES ANAL RETENTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anal retentiveness

The term anal retentive, commonly abbreviated to anal, is used to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis.

Definition of anal retentive in the English dictionary

The definition of anal retentive in the dictionary is a person who exhibits anal personality traits. Other definition of anal retentive is exhibiting anal personality traits.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANAL RETENTIVE

anal
anal canal
anal erotic
anal fin
anal intercourse
anal-retentive
analcime
analcimic
analcite
analecta
analectic
analects
analemma
analemmata
analemmatic
analeptic
analgesia
analgesic
analgetic
analgia

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANAL RETENTIVE

active
adventive
affrontive
agentive
anal-retentive
appointive
argumentive
attentive
disincentive
fermentive
inattentive
incentive
inventive
irretentive
plaintive
preventive
retentive
substantive
tax incentive
unattentive
uninventive

Synonyms and antonyms of anal retentive in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «anal retentive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANAL RETENTIVE

Find out the translation of anal retentive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anal retentive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anal retentive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

保持肛门
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anal retentivo
570 millions of speakers

English

anal retentive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुदा धारणा शक्तिवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تتذكر الشرج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анальный сохраняющий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

retentiva anal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পায়ূ retentive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rétention anale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dubur retentive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

anal remanent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

肛門保持
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

항문 유지력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anal retentive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giử lại hậu môn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குதூகலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुदद्वारासंबंधीचा दृष्टिकोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Anal tutucu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ritenzione anale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anal retencyjnego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анальний зберігає
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

retentie anal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρωκτικό απομνημόνευσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anale behoudend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anal retentive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anal retentive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anal retentive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAL RETENTIVE»

The term «anal retentive» is regularly used and occupies the 68.587 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANAL RETENTIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anal retentive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANAL RETENTIVE»

Discover the use of anal retentive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anal retentive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Does Anal Retentive Have a Hyphen: Communication Bleeps and ...
True stories of hilarious communication screw-ups in business, and how to fix them.
Todd Hunt, 2002
2
Tools and Techniques for Character Interpretation: A ...
We have all heard the term anal retentive, which refers to the retention, as opposed to the willing release, of feces during the toilet training stage. Anal retentive people are compulsively neat and rigidly unbending. The opposite type is anal ...
Robert Blumenfeld, 2006
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Homeopathic Psychology: Personality Profiles of the Major ...
Keynote: Physical insecurity ^o understand the Arsenicum individual, one has to understand the 'anal- retentive type', to use a Freudian term. (It is no small coincidence that neat arsenic is a powerful purgative.) According to Freud, the ...
Philip M. Bailey, 1995
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
17 anal retentive Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn. . . . The poem has many phrases familiar to us — including "tender is the night," and "for ...
Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber, 1999
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Angles on Child Psychology
Psychologist Richard Wiseman has discovered that we can classify people into oral and anal- retentive personalities based on their use of their bank accounts. Oral personalities tend to use their cashpoint cards often, regularly withdrawing ...
Matt Jarvis, Emma Chandler, 2001
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Personality Disorders in Modern Life
A rigid, impatient, or demanding attitude could result in the formation of anal- retentive traits, the characterological counterpart of the compulsive personality. Essentially, the child reacts against the parents by holding back and refusing to ...
Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah Meagher, 2012
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Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People: The ...
The person trying to exert control is labeled as a control freak, overcontrolling, anal-retentive, micromanaging, and so on. Some people try to understand the destructive narcissist's need for control and work within those constraints, but become ...
Nina W. Brown, 2006
8
Dare to be Average
Have you noticed the recent fashion for using the designation “anal-retentive” in a pejorative sense? I didn't think so. Well, that's probably because you're not an anal-retentive. But I am and I'm miffed. A computer search of major daily ...
David Martin, 2010
9
Body Experience in Fantasy and Behavior
Campos proposed that anal retentive personality traits result in an overevaluative "saving" attitude toward time, with the consequence that time passage is overestimated. He developed a 10-item "Retentive Personality Scale" which requests ...
Professor Seymour Fisher, Seymour Fisher, 1970
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A Dictionary of Psychology
Compare DIGITAL, SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION. analogical or analogic adj. [ From Greek analogos proportionate, from ana up + logos word, discourse, or reason] anal-retentive phase n. The second phase of the 'anal stage according to a ...
Andrew M. Colman, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANAL RETENTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anal retentive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Are The Sacramento Kings Geniuses Or A Three Alarm Dumpster …
If Rondo couldn't make it work with Rick Carlisle, what is he going to be like with Karl, who is ten times the anal retentive control freak that ... «Golden Gate Sports, Jul 15»
2
Dieter Laser
Maybe a lot of people have an anal retentive trauma or at least a taboo feeling about it. I don't think that you therefore could call these films a ... «LeftLion, Jun 15»
3
Stalinist LGBT Thought Police?
See the courage and humor and freedom expressed and celebrated instead of reincarnating some Puritanical anal retentive need to criticize or ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
4
Fast-growing cybersecurity program probes 'ethical hacking'
“It's made me anal retentive,” he said of his more cautious approach to hacking. Pons agrees that the “rules” of hacking are not simple. «FIU News, Jun 15»
5
You're Welcome
4) I'm anal retentive. I also hate that term. It sounds weird at best and disgusting at worst. I'm shooting for a family friendly blog so I'll stop there. «Longview News-Journal, Jun 15»
6
Tom Thibodeau is what you call anal retentive
Sam Smith's NBA.com story on the departure of Tom Thibodeaucontains a pretty all-encompassing anecdote on the now former Chicago Bulls ... «Blog a Bull, May 15»
7
'Avengers: Age of Ultron' tops with $77.2 million
The film about an anal retentive cop (Witherspoon) trying to protect a drug boss' widow (Vergara) was also backed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... «Geo News, Pakistan, May 15»
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How Dennis McCarthy built Furious 7's off-road Charger
I love watching those Chargers, although the grill on the '69 is prettier IMO than the '70 (my little anal retentive nit-pick). Reply · Like. «RoadandTrack.com, Apr 15»
9
Koenigsegg builds on experience with 1160-hp Agera RS
Who is crazy enough and so engineeringly anal retentive that they make their own wheels, which are hollow and made out of carbon fiber to be ... «Gizmag, Mar 15»
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Flashback: Phil Hartman On His Big 'SNL' Break in 1989: 'It Gave Me …
... and Frank Sinatra, as well as creating memorable characters such as Frankenstein, Frozen Caveman Lawyer and Anal Retentive Chef. «Entertainment Tonight, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anal retentive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anal-retentive>. Apr 2024 ».
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