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English Dictionary: tenacious	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tenacious adj good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" Synonym(s): retentive, recollective, long, tenacious Antonym(s): forgetful, short, unretentive 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" Synonym(s): dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" Synonym(s): coherent, tenacious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tenacious \Tena"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. [bd]Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay.[b8] --Cowper. 5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth. 6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. -- {Tena"ciously}, adv. -- {Tena"ciousness}, n.