anal retentive meaning

Adjective: anal retentive

1. A stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
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Encyclopedia: Anal retentive

[Medicine]
n : an anal-retentive individual

• anal-retentive:    [Medicine] adj : c ...
• anal retentive personality:    Noun: anal retenti ...
• retentive:    Adjective: retenti ...

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1. How anal retentive and how ludicrous do you want to get?
2. The cups of league anal retentives did not runneth over with amusement.
3. Remember the anal retentive chef on " Saturday Night Live "?
4. Nor do they want to look anal retentive and pull out a calculator.
5. My partner calls it anal retentive.