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tenacious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

tenacious (comparative more tenacious, superlative most tenacious)

• Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
• Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
• Holding together; cohesive.
  • ✤ The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]¹
• Having a good memory; retentive.

Etymology

From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), +‎ -ious.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /təˈneɪʃəs/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /təˈnæɪʃəs/
  • Audio (Queensland): 🔊
• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
• Hyphenation: tena‧cious

Printed 2026-09-04.

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Footnotes

1. 1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave: ↩

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