Retaining synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
Tending to impede or delay progress:
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The definition of taking is intriguing or interesting.
That seizes the attention; impressive.
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Attracting and holding the attention; striking:
holding-back
keeping back
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Willing to please; ready to help; obliging
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That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
To go on with; carry on; keep up; persist in
To have a recollection; remember
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To commit to memory; learn by heart.
Grasp is defined as to have a firm hold on something.
To hold or keep within limits; restrain:
Commission means to send on a mission or make an order.
To endure; accommodate:
To recall is defined as to bring, call back or remember.
To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
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To husband is defined as to conserve or use economically.
To grasp or hold eagerly or tightly
To have or formulate in the mind:
Revive is defined as to bring something or someone back or make something or someone come back to life.
To behave obediently:
freeing (antonym)
To remove obstructions or entanglements from; clear:
releasing (antonym)
Release is defined as to set free or to relieve.
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spending (antonym)
To spend is to use all of a resource, to focus your energy on something or to give someone money.
losing (antonym)
To become slow by (a specified amount of time). Used of a timepiece.
firing (antonym)
To feed or serve the fire of.
dismissing (antonym)
To dismiss is defined as to send someone away, or to disregard an idea or treat something as unworthy of consideration.
working (related)
Work is defined as to put forth effort in order to accomplish something or to have a job.
Find another word for retaining. In this page you can discover 55 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for retaining, like: saving, holding, keeping, maintaining, securing, sustaining, preserving, owning, possessing, having and withholding.