tenacious (adj.)

  1. good at remembering; a retentive mind; tenacious memory

    [ Syn: retentive , recollective , long ]

  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 , unyielding ]

  3. sticking together; two coherent sheets; tenacious burrs

    [ Syn: coherent ]

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