tenacious

Meanings

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.

Synonyms

adhesive, clingsome, coherent, cohesive, dogged, dour, elephantlike, long, memorious, obstinate, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recollective, retentive, steadfast, sticky, unyielding

Antonyms

unretentive

Related Words

tenaciously, tenaciousness, tenacity