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anal-retentive

a. 1 (context Freudian psychology English) preoccupied with achieving order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects. 2 (context by extension English) Overly obsessive concerning small details.

Usage examples of "anal-retentive".

Either Rose was an anal-retentive housekeeper or it had been wiped clean so the last user could go undetected.

For the first time in his anal-retentive, hyper-compulsive professional life he had lost control of events.

I was halfway kidding, but I wondered if in all her anal-retentive glory she just might do it.

He had to eat crow in front of the whole Council, relentlessly driven by his anal-retentive sense of duty and honor.