Tenacious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
  • adj. Holding together firmly; cohesive: a tenacious material.
  • adj. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive: tenacious lint.
  • adj. Tending to retain; retentive: a tenacious memory.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. clinging to an object or surface; adhesive
  • adj. unwilling to yield or give up; dogged
  • adj. holding together; cohesive
  • adj. having a good memory; retentive
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession.
  • adj. Apt to retain; retentive.
  • adj. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough.
  • adj. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
  • adj. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
  • adj. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession: with of before the thing held; hence, stubborn; obstinate.
  • Retentive; apt to retain long what is committed to it: said of the memory.
  • Niggardly; close-fisted.
  • Apt to adhere to another substance; adhesive, as ropy, glutinous, or viscous matter; sticky; viscid: as, few substances are so tenacious as tar.
  • Tough; having great cohesive force between its particles, so that they resist any effort to pull or force them asunder: as, steel is the most tenacious of all known substances.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. good at remembering
  • adj. stubbornly unyielding
  • adj. sticking together
    • Equivalent
    obstinate    unregenerate    stubborn    adhesive   
    Cross Reference
    sticky    constant    persistent    retentive   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    retentive    cohesive    tough    glutinous    viscous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ignatius    audacious    capacious    ceraceous    crustaceous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    courageous    stubborn    resolute    unyielding    resourceful   
     
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