Dictionary

memorious en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (of a person) having an unusually good memory
   • He had forgotten ever writing the work until, ten years later, a memorious friend produced it in Palermo, newly refurbished by Rota. 2000, The New Criterion, volume 19, numbers 1-4, page 59:
2. Easy to remember, often for specific reason; memorable.
   • Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story. 1880, Camoens [i.e., Luís de Camões], “Canto X”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., edited by Isabel Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads): […], volume II, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, stanza 71, page 387:
3. Relating to memories.
   • As a space inhabited in the present, it often houses material elements from the family's history, serving as a memorious map that describes and explains the family's genealogy and narratives of its past. 2017, Brady Wagoner, Handbook of Culture and Memory, page 106:

Forms

Antonyms

absent-minded · scatterbrained · forgetful (having a good memory) · unretentive · oblivescent · forgitty · oblivious

Deriveds

memoriousness

Synonyms

elephantlike (having a good memory) · memorable (easy to remember) · tenacious · unforgetful · memorious · retentive