memorious
English
    
    Adjective
    
memorious (comparative more memorious, superlative most memorious)
- (of a person) having an unusually good memory
- 2000, The New Criterion, volume 19, numbers 1-4, page 59:- He had forgotten ever writing the work until, ten years later, a memorious friend produced it in Palermo, newly refurbished by Rota.
 
 
- Easy to remember, often for specific reason; memorable.
- 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:- Deeds they shall do so digne memorious glory, / song shall not suit nor Hist'ory hold the story.
 
 
- Relating to memories.
- 2017, Brady Wagoner, Handbook of Culture and Memory, page 106:- 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.
 
 
Synonyms
    
- (having a good memory) elephantlike, retentive, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:memorious
- (easy to remember) memorable; see also Thesaurus:memorable
Antonyms
    
- (having a good memory) forgetful
Further reading
    
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