Synonyms for tenacious
təˈneɪ ʃəstena·cious

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1. tenacious

   Synonyms:
   retentive, adhesive, obstinate, pertinacious, stubborn, jealous, chary

   Antonyms:
   irretentive, inadhesive, pliant, yielding, liberal, prodigal, bountiful

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1. retentive, recollective, long, tenaciousadjective

   good at remembering

   "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"

   Synonyms:
   prospicient, farsighted, recollective, persistent, dour, long, foresightful, retentive, farseeing, coherent, foresighted, longsighted, dogged, unyielding, pertinacious

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive, docile

2. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   saturnine, relentless, sullen, grim, long, sour, morose, haunting, retentive, dark, unyielding, moody, recollective, dour, coherent, lasting, pertinacious, dogged, glowering, forbidding, unrelenting, glum, persistent

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive, docile

3. coherent, tenaciousadjective

   sticking together

   "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"

   Synonyms:
   persistent, consistent, ordered, long, dour, recollective, lucid, logical, retentive, coherent, unyielding, dogged, pertinacious

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive, docile

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1. tenaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   retentive, apt to retain

2. tenaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, sticky, glutinous, viscous, cohesive, smeary, dauby, clinging

3. tenaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, opinionated, opinionative, positive, pig-headed

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1. tenaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   retentive, cohesive, tough, pertinacious, persistent

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1. List of paraphrases for "tenacious":

   indomitable, stubborn, persistent, strenuous, dogged, insistent, tireless

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1. Olivia Phillips:

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2. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

3. Victor Hugo:

   Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

4. Tindo Managing Director Adrian Ferraretto:

   It's stunted our growth, we are survivors, we're tenacious, but our potential can't be realised as quickly as it otherwise could be.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   Most men act real stupid trying to restrain the emotions of an emotionally strong and tenacious woman. They often find themselves in an -emotional quick sand- the more they wiggle, the deeper they sink-after someone dies of course! what stupidity!