involving, relating to, or situated near the anus.
(in Freudian psychoanalysis) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development supposedly preoccupied with the anus and defecation.
informal anal-retentive:he’s anal about things like that
Derivatives
anally
adverb
Origin:
mid 18th century: from modern Latin analis, from Latin anus(see anus)
