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tenacious
Overview of adj tenacious
The adj tenacious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
2. dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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")
3. coherent, tenacious -- (sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs")
Grep of noun tenacious
tenaciousness
Antonyms of adj tenacious
3 senses of tenacious
Sense 1
retentive (vs. unretentive), recollective, long, tenacious
Sense 2
dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
INDIRECT (VIA stubborn) -> docile
Sense 3
coherent, tenacious
INDIRECT (VIA adhesive) -> nonadhesive
Similarity of adj tenacious
3 senses of tenacious
Sense 1
retentive (vs. unretentive), recollective, long, tenacious
Also See> mindful#1, aware#2
Sense 2
dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
=> stubborn (vs. docile), obstinate, unregenerate
Sense 3
coherent, tenacious
=> adhesive (vs. nonadhesive)
Pertainyms of adj tenacious
Attributes of adj tenacious
Domain of adj tenacious
Domain Terms of adj tenacious
Familiarity of adj tenacious
tenacious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj tenacious
tenacious
Grep of adv tenacious
tenaciously
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