tenacious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   sticking together

   They made a tenacious pair.

2. 2
   adj

   good at remembering

   My memory is tenacious, so don't try and fool me.

3. 3
   adj

   stubbornly unyielding

   The students responses were so tenacious, that they often landed them in trouble at school.

4. 4
   adj

   Holding together; cohesive.

   The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]

5. 5
   adj

   Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.

6. 6
   adj

   Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.

7. 7
   adj

   Having a good memory; retentive.

Etymology

From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.