adjective
- Good at remembering.
- usage: "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
- synonyms: retentive, recollective, long
- Stubbornly unyielding.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding
- Sticking together.
- usage: "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
- synonyms: coherent
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