Adjective: anal-retentive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more anal-retentive |
| Superlative | most anal-retentive |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like anal-retentive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From anal + retentive. First use appears c. 1936 in the writings of Marjorie Brierley.