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tenacious

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tenacious in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. sticking together
    "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
    coherent  tenacious 
  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"
    dogged  dour  persistent  pertinacious  tenacious  unyielding 
  3. good at remembering
    "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
    retentive  recollective  long  tenacious 
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