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tenacious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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/
  • (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /təˈnæɪʃəs/
    • Audio (Queensland): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
  • Hyphenation: tena‧cious

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Footnotes

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

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