Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region;
fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.;
[syn: anal, anal retentive]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
anal retentive
adj 1: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's
interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at
this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness,
stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. [syn: anal, anal
retentive] [ant: oral]