Tenacious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENACIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• holding on
• tending to keep a firm hold of something; clinging or adhering closely
• not readily relinquishing a position, principle, or course of action; determined
• persisting in existence; not easily dispelled
• holding fast
• Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
• Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
• Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
• Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
• Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
• Holding stoutly to one\'s opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
• good at remembering
• stubbornly unyielding
• sticking together
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not easily pulled apart; cohesive; tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance

Words related to TENACIOUS

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Words that contain TENACIOUS

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How to use TENACIOUS in a sentence

• Those men who had failed, and yet, most tenacious, were hanging on for some last lucky turn of the wheel, knew the risk they ran.
• It was astonishing how tenacious the fire appeared, how it crept along, eating up the mowed wheat.
• He was ingenious, fearless, and exceedingly tenacious of purpose, so that when he was still young, his name became notorious upon the American coast.
• His reading was prodigious, and his memory so tenacious that it was said, with but little exaggeration, that he never forgot any thing that he had read.
• Still, she is, in her way, fond of him, tenacious in her possession of him, and Sundays and fete days they get on together very handsomely.
• Ellis had a strain of thrift, derived from a Scotch ancestry, and a tenacious memory for financial details.
• Small hope as he had of ever seeing again his own lines, yet he missed nothing of importance, storing up each hill, valley, clump of trees, and track in his tenacious memory.
• Her tenacious memory of ninety may have some foundation, therefore.
• And yet the customs seem changed since those days I mention, or else memory is beginning to lose some of the impressions of an age when memory is apt to be most tenacious.
• Luckily he maintained a tenacious hold to the rear upstander of his sled.
• The knight breathed freely again after a long period of anxiety, for the tenacious memory and uncertain temper of the late Queen had kept him in a constant ferment.
• The Buddhists, though tenacious of freedom in the spiritual life, had no objection to the patronage of princes.
• But they could not do away with the strong and tenacious combination of circumstances against him.
• Fisher, who had been, she should say, a man originally tenacious of habits, had quite soon after marriage got out of this one.
• Marzio was tenacious of his ideas and of his schemes.
• The sparks and shooting gleams of fires still quivered, imbued with a tenacious life.
• But he was exceedingly tenacious of his own opinion.
• And so, when we declare our tenacious adherence to the Union, it is the Union of the Constitution.
• Our tenacious and incessant prayer is an evident sign of our tenacious and unbroken hope.
• Nature has drawn no object with so firm a hand, nor painted it with such tenacious clearness of color, as the face of man.
• His hands took a peculiar, tenacious, hold of everything he chanced to touch.
• So tenacious is usage, and so unchanging many of the conditions of life.
• For women are tenacious of sacrifice even as men are of revenge.
• But the features themselves are wonderfully tenacious of their old patterns.
• The fragrance of the oil is perceptibly weaker when obtained from seed produced on wet, tenacious soils.
• Even to be too tenacious of those privileges is not absolutely a crime.
• In reality, tenacious consciousness of his genius left him a hope which nothing could destroy, even during his longest crises of despondency.
• He was made of tenacious material, and the danger from the flying bullets merely confirmed him in his purpose.

Similar words containing TENACIOU without suffix s

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