Dictionary Entry
tenacious
tenacious is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
- 2adjective
Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
- 3adjective
Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
- 4adjective
Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
- 5adjective
Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
- 6adjective
Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
- 7adjective
sticking together
"two coherent sheets"
"tenacious burrs"
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- 8adjective
good at remembering
"a retentive mind"
"tenacious memory"
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- 9adjective
stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot
"dogged persistence"
"dour determination"
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