Tenacious










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Tenacious \Te*na"cious\, a. [L. tenax, -acis, from tenere to
hold. See Tenable, and cf. Tenace.]

1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain
what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just
rights.
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2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
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3. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough;
as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than
oil. --Sir I. Newton.
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4. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous;
sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle
with tenacious clay." --Cowper.
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5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.
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6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate;
stubborn.
[1913 Webster] -- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. --
Te*na"cious*ness, n.
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tenacious
adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious
memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long,
tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive]

2: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the
critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious
to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn:
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious,
unyielding]

3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
[syn: coherent, tenacious]
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tenacious [tineiʃəs]
hartnäckig; klebrig; zäh

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tenacious

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szorító
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tenacious

hartnäckig; zäh; klebrig; fest haftend adj
tenacious

fest; sehr beständig adj
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222 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenacious":
adamant, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, assiduous, balking, balky,
bigoted, bound, bound and determined, bulldogged, bulldoggish,
bulldoggy, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cartilaginous, case-hardened,
chewy, clabbered, clammy, clinging, clingy, clotted, coagulated,
cohesive, committed, constant, continuing, coriaceous, curdled,
decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted,
diligent, dogged, dogmatic, doughy, durable, earnest, enduring,
faithful, fanatic, fibrous, firm, fixed, game, gamy, gaumy,
gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose,
glutinous, good, gooey, grasping, gripping, gristly, gritty,
grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gutsy, gutty,
hard, hardheaded, hardy, headstrong, heavy, holding, immovable,
immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious,
inflexible, insistent, inspissated, intolerant, intransigent,
invincible, jelled, jellied, jellylike, keeping, lasting,
leatherlike, leathery, loyal, maintaining, mettlesome,
mucilaginous, mulish, nervy, never-tiring, obdurate, obstinate,
opinionated, overzealous, pasty, patient, patient as Job,
permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting,
pertinacious, pigheaded, plodding, plucky, plugging, preoccupied,
purposeful, rapt, red-blooded, refractory, relentless, resistant,
resolute, resolved, restive, retaining, retentive, rigid, ropy,
secure, sedulous, self-adhesive, self-willed, serious, set,
sincere, sinewy, single-minded, slabby, sleepless, slimy, slithery,
slogging, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stable, stalwart, starchy,
staunch, steadfast, steady, stickable, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked,
stodgy, stout, stringy, strong, strong-minded, strong-willed,
strongheaded, stubborn, sturdy, sulky, sullen, syrupy, tacky,
thick, thickened, tight, tireless, tough, tough as leather,
tremelloid, tremellose, true, unabating, uncompromising,
unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping,
unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting,
uninterrupted, unnodding, unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
unremitting, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unsleeping,
unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking,
unyielding, utterly attentive, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous,
weariless, wholehearted, willful, wiry



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