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Meaning of "irretentive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRRETENTIVE

irretentive  [ˌɪrɪˈtɛntɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRRETENTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irretentive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IRRETENTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of irretentive in the English dictionary

The definition of irretentive in the dictionary is not retentive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRRETENTIVE


adventive
ədˈvɛntɪv
agentive
ˈeɪdʒəntɪv
anal-retentive
ˌeɪnəlrəˈtɛntɪv
appointive
əˈpɔɪntɪv
assentive
əˈsɛntɪv
attentive
əˈtɛntɪv
disincentive
ˌdɪsɪnˈsɛntɪv
fermentive
fəˈmɛntɪv
inattentive
ˌɪnəˈtɛntɪv
incentive
ɪnˈsɛntɪv
intentive
ɪnˈtɛntɪv
inventive
ɪnˈvɛntɪv
overattentive
ˌəʊvərəˈtɛntɪv
pendentive
pɛnˈdɛntɪv
plaintive
ˈpleɪntɪv
presentive
prɪˈzɛntɪv
preventive
prɪˈvɛntɪv
retentive
rɪˈtɛntɪv
substantive
ˈsʌbstəntɪv
sustentive
səˈstɛntɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRRETENTIVE

irresponsible
irresponsibleness
irresponsibly
irresponsive
irresponsively
irresponsiveness
irrestrainable
irresuscitable
irresuscitably
irretention
irretentiveness
irretrievability
irretrievable
irretrievableness
irretrievably
irreverence
irreverent
irreverential
irreverently
irreversibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRRETENTIVE

active
affrontive
alternative
anal retentive
argumentive
automotive
circumventive
competitive
cooperative
creative
effective
executive
in the negative
interactive
native
negative
tax incentive
uninventive
unretentive
wage incentive

Synonyms and antonyms of irretentive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «irretentive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRRETENTIVE

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The translations of irretentive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irretentive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不能保持
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irretentive
570 millions of speakers

English

irretentive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

irretentive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

irretentive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

irretentive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irretentive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধারণক্ষমতাহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans espoir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Irretentif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

irretentive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

irretentive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

irretentive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irretentive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

irretentive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

irretentive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

irretentive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irretentive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

irretentive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

irretentive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

irretentive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

irretentive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

irretentive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irretentive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irretentive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irretentive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRETENTIVE»

The term «irretentive» is normally little used and occupies the 150.669 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRETENTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irretentive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irretentive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRRETENTIVE»

Discover the use of irretentive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irretentive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The regular settlement and revised assessment of the ...
... latter, the good portions practised without difficulty ; water found at very varying depths from the surface on an average about 16 feet ; kutcha wells lasting three years as a rule ; sub-soil firm, but irretentive of moisture ; population very scanty.
Sitapur, Michael Lloyd Ferrar (I.C.S.), 1871
2
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: ...
These are tokens of the hot flegmatic' maw, irretentive,2 and of the overcold. Of the hot or irretentive ' Full of ¢A¢7povfi. '—' The diet is drawn from apessage thus headed; Qeparel'a ffi! But 01' ppvyy cia'flwauio'ns Swdmws. UngeVOL.
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, 1865
3
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Læce ...
These are tokens of the hot flegmatic 1 maw, irretentive,2 and of the overcold. Of the hot or irretentive - Full of <p\tyfiQirii. - Tin.- diet is drawn from a passage thus headed ; Wtpawtio riji Sio Vipfirjy aaOtvovtrris JWa,utwr. Un^e- metrsert ...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus (Papyriensis.), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos.), 1865
4
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: ...
These are tokens of the hot flegmatie1 maw, irretentive,2 and of the overcold. Of the hot or irretentive Book II. Ch. xiv. 3emecpaef'can tacn finbon Ponne he 1016 m1b omum gefpenceb Pam. ' Full of ¢Ae'y/.wv1'). 2 The diet is drawn from a pas.
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, 2012
5
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England: ...
These are tokens of the hot flegmatic i maw, irretentive,2 and of the overcold. Of the hot or irretentive i Full of -p\eyiioyii. - The diet is drawn from a passage thus headed ; Qepareia rrjs Sia B4 pur) v aaBtvoiaris Swtuucus, UiiKe- VOL. II. mervtert ...
Cockayne, 1865
6
Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre
Readers may be similarly irretentive, or even inattentive, while perusing short stories, but authors cannot plan with that in mind. Of the criticisms leveled against Proust's novel, the most frequent is that it lacks economy (Michael Wood calls it an ...
Allan H. Pasco, 2010
7
A code of signals for the use of the mercantile navy
... Irrespective 58 Is she not ly 59 Is it not 35 Irresponsible 36 Irretentive 60 He is done 87 Irretrievable 61 She is done y 62 It is done 38 Irreturnable 39 Irreveren-t 63 He is not done ce 64 She is not done tly 65 It is not done 40 Irreversible ness ...
Bethune James Walker, 1841
8
Horæ nauseæ [verse].
... of which it would naturally have been irretentive. It is easy to trace the corruption of the text. " Plate " has been written with an elision, " pla," by a copyist studious of his ease. The now final vowel has slipped into the middle place and formed ...
Lawrence Peel (sir.), 1841
9
Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a Dictionary of the Gaelic ...
IRRESPECTIVE, adj. Neo-aireach, neo-chfiramach, neo-fhaicilleach. IRRESPECTIVELY, adv. See Irrespective. IRRESPONSIBILITY, s. Do- fhreagarrachd. IRREsPONsIBLE, adj. Do-fhreagarrach. IRRETENTIvE, Neo- dhionach, neo-chumaltach ...
‎1828
10
A Dictionary of English and Bengalee: Tr. from Todd's Ed. of ...
চেতনা বা উৎসাহবদ্ধক | Irretentive, a. অধারণর্শক্টল. অছুক্ষেণর্শক্টল. অরক্ষক | Irmption, ঞ- ৪- Fr- I-at আক্রমণ- চড়াউ- ব্দুর্টিফ্রা র্বাহিরহওন. Irretrievable, a. EIZ[fiZFI§I, অণুতিকর*টীয়> অনুদ্ধরণীয়. অ প্তন্থচাটক* কধূবিট্টশষ I হশাছমৌর. পৃনরপ্লাপা. গেলে বা fife ...
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Ramcomul Sen, 1834

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRRETENTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irretentive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Russia's Medvedev Seals Diplomatic Ties with Official Visit to Ukraine
... were strained, with Moscow refusing to talk to Kyiv because of irretentive policies toward Russia. Russian business was sidelined in Ukraine. «The Epoch Times, May 10»

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