unretentiveadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈtɛntɪv/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈtɛn(t)ɪv/ Not retentive (in various senses).
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]
wordyeOE
talewisec1200
i-worded?c1225
babblinga1250
cacklinga1250
chatteringa1250
speakfula1250
word-wooda1250
of many wordsc1350
janglingc1374
tatteringc1380
tongueya1382
ganglinga1398
readya1400
jargaunt1412
talkative1432
open-moutheda1470
clattering1477
trattling?a1513
windy1513
popping1528
smatteringa1529
rattle?1529
communicablea1533
blab1552
gaggling1553
long-tongued?1553
prittle-prattle1556
pattering1558
talking1560
bobling1566
gabbling1566
verbal1572
piet1573
twattling1573
flibber gibber1575
babblative1576
tickle-tongued1577
tattling1581
buzzing1587
long-winded1589
multiloquous1591
discoursive1599
rattling1600
glib1602
flippant1605
talkful1605
nimble-tongued1608
tongue-ripe1610
fliperous1611
garrulous?1611
futile1612
overspeaking1612
feather-tongueda1618
tongue-free1617
long-breatheda1628
well-breathed1635
multiloquious1640
untongue-tied1640
unretentive1650
communicative1651
linguacious1651
glibbed1654
largiloquent1656
multiloquent1656
parlagea1657
loose-clacked1661
nimble-chop1662
twit-twat1665
over-talkativea1667
loquacious1667
loudmouth1668
conversable1673
gash1681
narrative1681
chappy1693
apposite1701
conversative1703
gabbit1710
lubricous1715
gabby?1719
ventose1721
taleful1726
chatty?1741
blethering1759
renable1781
fetch-fire1784
conversational1799
conversant1803
gashing1808
long-lunged1815
talky1815
multi-loquacious1819
prolegomenous1822
talky-talky1831
nimble-mouthed1836
slipper1842
speechful1842
gassy1843
in great force1849
yattering1859
babbly1860
irreticent1864
chattable1867
lubrical1867
chattery1869
loose-mouthed1872
chinny1883
tongue-wagging1885
yappy1909
big-mouthed1914
loose-lipped1919
ear-bashing1945
ear-bending1946
yackety-yacking1953
nattering1959
yacking1959
woofy1960
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > of memory: not retentive
short1340
slipper?a1475
unclasping1640
slippery1653
leaky1692
irretentive1749
unretentive1782
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective]
forgetelc1000
forgetful1382
mindlessa1425
obliviousc1450
unremembered1453
immemor1535
unremembering1540
unrecalling1594
immemorious1602
elapsive1652
remindless1657
unrecording1813
unretentive1825
forgetting1847
memoryless1857
1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 44 The Vine sometimes is oppressed with an unretentive scattering disease, as unable to maintaine the fruit shee hath produced, which shee therefore discharges.
1714 T. Boydell Medicaster Exenteratus 11 A Taste of Aromatic Lees..From loose and unretentive Fundament.
1782 I. Reed Baker's Biogr. Dramatica I. 238/2 So unretentive was his memory.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 363 You are not so unretentive a Scholar as to have forgotten the ‘pateris et auro’ of your Virgil.
1868 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 414 They are easily relieved of the few coins burning in their unretentive pockets.
1916 A. H. Meyer et al. in M. Whitney Field Operations Bureau of Soils 1913 1944 The soil is thoroughly drained and very unretentive of moisture.
2011 M. Miller Middle State iv. 46 Appearing academically to be his customary slow-witted, uncaring, imperceptive and unretentive self.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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