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recollective
adjective as in reminiscent
adjective as in retrospective
Example Sentences
Even if the memory is not your own, you taste its recollective pull.
When it is injured, remembrance is impaired; and, on the other hand, an accident has been known to improve the recollective faculties.
“You may need a prompt to start the recollective search,” he said.
Throughout, the lyrics are oddly imprecise – every sentence begins with "I must have … " or "I'm pretty sure … " – and it's this vague recollective tone that gives her account a tinge of unreality, even fiction.
Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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