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tenacious - Dictionary definition and meaning for tenacious

TENACIOUS

  • (adj.) good at remembering

    "a retentive mind", "tenacious memory"

    synonyms : long , recollective , retentive

  • (adj.) sticking together

    "two coherent sheets", "tenacious burrs"

    synonyms : coherent

  • (adj.) 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", "men tenacious of opinion"

    synonyms : dogged , dour , persistent , pertinacious , unyielding

    He is too tenacious -added by vindos

    Jones was the most vocal and pertinacious of all her critics. -added by naila_inlas

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Mnemonics for tenacious

  • (Tag: English) Sounds like ten Asians. Ten developing Asian countries if united together, can not be pulled apart.

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  • (Tag: ) Using the similarity to "Asian" again, you can use the stereotype that Asians are good at school... thus good at remembering/ retentive. You can even stretch it to the "stubbornly persistent" def."

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  • (Tag: ) REtenacious... one who retains things..

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  • (Tag: story) A man named ROCKY was sent to jail for throwing acid at his wife. He came out of jain several years later and you know the first thing he did? He threw the acid again. This thing repeated 10 times. Finally he was called tenacious

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  • (Tag: ENGLISH) TENANT-DOESNT LET GO OFF a flat he gets , very easily.. TENANTs are TENAcious

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  • (Tag: ) even if there are ten meanings, a tenacious person will remember all

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  • (Tag: Movie) Tenacious reminds of Tentacles of Davy Jones in the movie Pirates of Caribbean, they stuck together and didn't yield by any possible means.

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  • (Tag: ) ten means push in greek

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  • (Tag: ) tenacious = ten + ac + io + us; We( us means we) indeed oblige(i for indeed & o for oblige) ten air conditioner for the hall anyhow otherwise you will not get your money.

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