tenacious meaning and definition

TENACIOUS adjective

Definition of tenacious (adjective)

1. good at remembering
   • "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
   • synonyms: long, recollective, retentive
   • antonym: forgetful
2. 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: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding
3. sticking together
   • "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
   • synonyms: coherent