tenacious
adj/təˈneɪʃəs/
Etymology From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.
1
Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
2
Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
3
Holding together; cohesive.
- The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave:
4
Having a good memory; retentive.
- Derived terms
- overtenacious, untenacious
- Related terms
- tenaciously, tenaciousness, tenacity