• A term used to refer to a person who feels a need to be in control of all aspects of his or her surroundings. Or, in other words, an anal retentive person cant let go of shit.


    Anal retentive meaning & definition 1 of Anal retentive.


  • A mild form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A collection of very irritating personality traits that include stubbornness, orderliness, and a desire to control others and their surroundings. It makes a person meticulous or fixated about little things, nit-picking or paying extreme attention to detail, and trying to control his or her environment and other people. They do things “by the book’’ with no flexibility in the way they complete tasks, and expect others to do and think as they. It’s their way or the highway, basically. They are the worst people to work for or live with. My roommate is a good example. He irons his underwear because he doesn’t want the wrinkles, assuming people will see them or care. He always must have his room spotless in every detail, including making his bed to perfection before going to work. Before he puts dishes in the dishwasher, he washes them thoroughly, defeating his purpose for the dishwasher. And he must have the dishes in the washer sitting at a certain angle, for fear they wont get cleaned. He will also literally pick tiny particles from the living room carpet, before using the vacuum cleaner. Psychologists say that anally retentive people’s habits—often controlling—stem from lack of being breast fed as an infant. Basically, people who are anally retentive act like they have something up their butt. Instead, they need to see a psyciatrist. And if things don’t go their way, they go nuts! Anally retentive people are usually very annoying as a result and may have a hard time making and keeping friends.

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 2 of Anal retentive.


  • One who is excessively insistent upon the smallest detail of something, usually through ignorance or taking things too literally.

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 3 of Anal retentive.


  • A fixation on neatness developed from the Freudian anal stage, otherwise though of as the potty training years. Where the fixation stems from either not enough or too much pushing into potty training and cleanliness as a child.

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 4 of Anal retentive.


  • Person/persons who obviously have something stuck up their butt, but (no pun intended) feel the need to take it out on everyone else! These people also must have everything just so and if it isnt, oh theres gonna be anal retentive hell to pay, (i.e. nagging, bitching, complaining, delegating tasks/chores, and other various bossy crap too long to mention here.

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 5 of Anal retentive.


  • An individual who is tightly constricted in the asshole for some reason and is not afraid to show the world it; Is also completely concerned with detail to levels here to fore seen only in Nazi Germany: A basically utight, overwrought control freak. Usually Repressed to the Nth Degree.

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 6 of Anal retentive.


  • people who call other people anal retentive, who talk about Freud defining anal retentive, who ask people when was the last time they wet their pants or pooped in their diaper and who ask silly annoying questions and refuse to pay proper attention to the rules of the game

    Anal retentive meaning & definition 7 of Anal retentive.

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