tenacious

From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), +‎ -ious.

• IPA^(key): /təˈneɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
• Hyphenation: tena‧cious

tenacious (comparative more tenacious, superlative most tenacious)

1. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
2. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
3. Holding together; cohesive.
   • 1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave:

     The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]

4. Having a good memory; retentive.

• (clinging to an object or surface): clingsome, sticky; see also Thesaurus:adhesive
• (unwilling to yield or give up): pigheaded, steadfast; see also Thesaurus:obstinate
• (holding together): coherent; see also Thesaurus:cohesive
• (having a good memory): elephantlike, memorious; see also Thesaurus:memorious

• tenaciously
• tenaciousness
• tenacity

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