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Meaning of tenacious


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tenacious
      adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious
             memory" [syn: {retentive}, {recollective}, {long},
             {tenacious}] [ant: {forgetful}, {short}, {unretentive}]
      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}, {tenacious},
         {unyielding}]
      3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
         [syn: {coherent}, {tenacious}]


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