memorious
adj1
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:
- Synonyms
- elephantlike, retentive, tenacious, memorable, memorious, unforgetful
- Antonyms
- forgetful, absent-minded, forgitty, oblivescent, oblivious, scatterbrained, unretentive
- Derived terms
- memoriousness