Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tenacious
IPA transcription: [tən'eɪʃəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: coherent, tenacious
    Meaning: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
  • Synonyms: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious
    Meaning: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
  • Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
    Meaning: 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"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
Usage examples
  • I don't mean that my memory is weak. On the contrary, it is singularly tenacious.
  • "Would not your coming here displease him?" said John, always tenacious of trenching a hair's breadth upon any lawful authority.
  • He turned now to his right up a little hill, pebble-covered, upon which grew only the tenacious and thorny prickly pear and chaparral.
  • No! their errors are thrust upon them; they become selfish per force, cowards from their tenacious regard for that personal neatness which they so labour to preserve.