Definitions for: Tenacious


[adj] sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
[adj] (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.

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.

4. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous;
sticking; adhesive. ``Female feet, too weak to struggle
with tenacious clay.'' --Cowper.

5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.

6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate;
stubborn. -- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Te*na"cious*ness,
n.

Synonyms: adhesive, bulldog, coherent, dogged, dour, long, pertinacious, retentive, stubborn, unyielding

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