tenacious
Use tenacious to mean "not easily letting go or giving up," like a clingy child who has a tenacious grip on his mother's hand.
A strong grip or an unyielding advocate might both be described as tenacious, a word whose synonyms include resolute, firm, and persistent. The word comes from the Latin root tenax, which means "holding fast." The basketball commentator Marv Albert, impressed by a defender's skill, once uttered the sound bite, "That's some tenacious D!" ("D" is short for "defense.") The musicians Jack Black and Kyle Gass borrowed the phrase for the name of their comedy-rock band, Tenacious D.
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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”
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synonyms:
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding
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obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
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obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
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sticking together
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good at remembering“tenacious memory”
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synonyms:
long, recollective, retentive
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Antonyms:
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forgetful, short, unretentive
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
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forgetful, mindless, unmindful
not mindful or attentive
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forgetful, short, unretentive
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