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Tenacious

//təˈneɪʃəs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
  2. 2
    Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
  3. 3
    Holding together; cohesive.

    "The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]"

  4. 4
    Having a good memory; retentive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    sticking together wordnet
  2. 2
    good at remembering wordnet
  3. 3
    stubbornly unyielding wordnet

Etymology

From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.

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