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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How to use tenacious in a sentence?

1. Reed Scherer:

   It really shows how tenacious life is, the possibilities are just beyond our prediction.

2. Peter Lasagna:

   Jack is one of the most tenacious and gracious and humble people Ive ever coached, he is a loved young man whom everyone is rooting for.

3. Olivia Phillips:

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4. Jeh Johnson:

   The cyber threat to our country is going to get worse before it gets better, bad cyber actors — whether they’re nation states, cyber criminals, hacktivists, those who engage in ransomware — are increasingly aggressive, tenacious and ingenious.

5. 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.