tenacious
Adjective
- good at remembering
- "tenacious memory"
Adjective Satellite
- stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
- "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"
- "men tenacious of opinion"
- sticking together
- "tenacious burrs"
Adj
- Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
- Holding together; cohesive.
- Having a good memory; retentive.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.
Synonyms
coherent, dogged, dour, long, persistent, pertinacious, recollective, retentive, unyielding, adhesive, clingsome, cohesive, elephantlike, memorious, obstinate, pigheaded, steadfast, sticky
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
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