Definition of tenacious
Adjectives
good at remembering
"tenacious memory"
- Synonyms:
- long, recollective, retentive
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aware, mindful
bearing in mind; attentive to
- Antonyms:
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unretentive
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- forgetful, short
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mindless, unmindful
not mindful or attentive
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stubbornly unyielding
"a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot
"men tenacious of opinion"
- Synonyms:
- dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding
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obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Vocabulary Lists for tenacious
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" Chapters 1-10 »(412 words)
Vocabulary study list for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane...
- habituate
- neutralised
- coherently
- corrode
- predispose
Melba Pattillo Beals's Warriors Don't Cry »(96 words)
A good vocabulary List from Warriors Don't Cry.
- accolade
- adamant
- adversary
- amend
- amended
- abate
- acrostic
- adamant
- adamantly
- alleviate