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Another word for tenacious

tenacious Synonyms

tenacious

modif.

Adhesive
retentive, sticky, inseparable, waxy, resisting, gummy, coriaceous, viscous, viscid, glutinous; see also adhesive, tough 2.
Antonyms loose*, lax, slack.
Persistent
determined, pertinacious, purposeful, resolute; see obstinate, resolute 2.

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Another word for tenacious

adjective

Tenaciously unwilling to yield:
bullheaded, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, stiff-necked, willful. See resist
Persistently holding to something:
clinging, fast, firm¹, secure, tight. See free, tighten

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Still alive... tenacious... serves him right!
They made the difference, and they were both tenacious enough to make it last.
Tenacious soils and subsoils, with a small supply of water, require beds as narrow as 30 ft.
The claims of Greece, ignored at San Stefano, were admitted at Berlin; an extension of frontier, including Epirus as well as Thessaly, was finally sanctioned by the powers in 1880, but owing to the tenacious resistance of Turkey only Thessaly and the district of Arta were acquired by Greece in 1881.
Cynthia Byrne never opened her eyes and clung to Dean's right arm with such a tenacious grip he thought he'd be permanently scarred.

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