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1 tenacious
Good at remembering:
— Tenacious memory.
synoniemen: long, recollective, retentive.
Roget 46:
cohesive,
adhesive,
adhering,
cohering
etc.
v.;
tenacious,
tough;
sticky
etc.
352.
united,
unseparated,
unsessile†,
inseparable,
inextricable,
infrangible†;
compact
etc.
(dense)
321.
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Roget 327:
tenacious,
tough,
strong,
resisting,
sequacious†,
stringy,
gristly cartilaginous,
leathery,
coriaceous†,
tough as whitleather†;
stubborn
etc.
(obstinate)
606.
unbreakable,
indivisible;
atomic.
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Roget 781:
retaining
etc.
v.;
retentive,
tenacious.
unforfeited†,
undeprived,
undisposed,
uncommunicated.
incommunicable,
inalienable;
in mortmain [Fr.];
in strict settlement.
2 tenacious
Stubbornly unyielding:
— A mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it.
— Men tenacious of opinion.
synoniemen: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding.
Roget 606:
obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened;
inflexible
etc.
(hard)
323;
balky;
immovable,
unshakable,
not to be moved;
inert
etc.
172;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
inexorable
etc.
(determined)
604;
mulish,
obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed.
dogged;
sullen,
sulky;
unmoved,
uninfluenced unaffected.
willful,
self-willed,
perverse;
resty†,
restive,
restiff†;
pervicacious†,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly;
heady,
headstrong;
entete [Fr.];
contumacious;
crossgrained†.
arbitrary,
dogmatic,
positive,
bigoted;
prejudiced
etc.
481;
creed-bound;
prepossessed,
infatuated;
stiff-backed,
stiff necked,
stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed,
hidebound;
unyielding;
impervious,
impracticable,
inpersuasible†;
unpersuadable;
intractable,
untractable†;
incorrigible,
deaf to advice,
impervious to reason;
crotchety
etc.
608.
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3 tenacious
Sticking together:
— Tenacious burrs.
synoniem: coherent.
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