Usually means: Obsessive need for order, control.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. anal-retentive, anal retentive: Merriam-Webster
  2. anal-retentive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anal-retentive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anal-retentive, anal-retentive, anal retentive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anal retentive: Vocabulary.com
  6. anal-retentive: Wordnik
  7. anal retentive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anal-retentive, anal retentive: Wiktionary
  9. anal-retentive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anal retentive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. anal-retentive, anal retentive: Dictionary.com
  12. Anal retentive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. anal retentive: FreeDictionary.org
  14. anal retentive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. anal-retentive, anal retentive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anal retentive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anal retentive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Anal retentive, anal-retentive: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Anal retentive)

adjective:  Alternative form of anal-retentive [(psychology, Freudian) Preoccupied with achieving perfection, order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects.]

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