Synonyms of the word tenacious


TENACIOUSADHESIVE - AWARE - COHERENT - DOGGED - DOUR - LONG - MINDFUL - OBSTINATE - PERTINACIOUS - RECOLLECTIVE - RETENTIVE - STUBBORN - UNREGENERATE - UNYIELDING

tenacious

  • adj. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
  • adj. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
  • adj. Holding together; cohesive.
  • adj. Having a good memory; retentive.

adhesive

  • adj. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
  • adj. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
  • n. A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.

aware

  • adj. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
  • adj. Conscious or having knowledge of something.

coherent

  • adj. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  • adj. Orderly, logical and consistent.
  • adj. Aesthetically ordered.
  • adj. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  • adj. (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  • adj. (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties…

dogged

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of dog.
  • adj. stubbornly persevering, steadfast.

dour

  • adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  • adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
  • adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

long

  • adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
  • adj. Having great duration.
  • adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
  • adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
  • adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
  • adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
  • adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
  • adv. Over a great distance in space.
  • adv. For a particular duration.
  • adv. For a long duration.
  • n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  • n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
  • n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
  • n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
  • v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
  • adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
  • v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
  • n. longitude.

mindful

  • adj. Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
  • adj. (obsolete) Inclined (to do something).

obstinate

  • adj. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
  • adj. Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.

pertinacious

  • adj. Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
  • adj. Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

recollective

  • adj. Of or pertaining to recollection.

retentive

  • adj. Having power to retain.
  • adj. (slang, apocope) anal-retentive.
  • n. (obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.

stubborn

  • adj. Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.

unregenerate

  • adj. which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit.
  • adj. stubborn.

unyielding

  • adj. Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.

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