Usually means: Unable to retain information or details.
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  1. irretentive: Merriam-Webster
  2. irretentive: Collins English Dictionary
  3. irretentive: Wordnik
  4. irretentive: Wiktionary
  5. irretentive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. irretentive: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Irretentive, irretentive: Dictionary.com
  8. Irretentive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. irretentive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Irretentive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. irretentive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. irretentive: FreeDictionary.org
  13. irretentive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Not retentive; not apt to retain.

Similar:
unretentive, nonretentive, unretained, unretainable, untenacious, irreticent, irremissible, unreticent, unretted, unretardable, more...

Opposite:
retentive, tenacious, persistent, adhesive

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Similar:
unretentive, nonretentive, unretained, unretainable, untenacious, irreticent, irremissible, unreticent, unretted, unretardable, more...

Opposite:
retentive, tenacious, persistent, adhesive



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