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Another word for tenacious

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Adjective

  1. Tenaciously unwilling to yield

    See also:

    resist

  2. Persistently holding to something

    See also:

    tighten

    free

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Another word for tenacious

Modifier

  1. Adhesive

    See also:

    tough

    adhesive

    Antonyms:

  2. Persistent

    See also:

    resolute

    obstinate

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Sentence Examples

  • Still alive... tenacious... serves him right!

  • They made the difference, and they were both tenacious enough to make it last.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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