unreˈtentive, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
| 1748 Chesterfield Lett. (1774) I. 336 Discovering to them such an unretentive weakness as must convince them that you will tell it to twenty others. 1782 Baker Biog. Dramatica I. 238/2 So unretentive was his memory. 1825 Coleridge Aids Refl. 363 You are not so unretentive a Scholar as to have forgotten the pateris et auro of your Virgil. 1851 [J. B. Hume] Poems Early Years 165 What further may have chanc'd my sleepy brain, In unretentive dulness, noted not. |