tenacious
Syllables: tena·ciousUK/təˈneɪʃəs/
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Australia/təˈnæɪʃəs/
tenacious adjective: clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
Adjective
tenacious (comparative more tenacious, superlative most tenacious)
- Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- Synonyms:
- clingsome
- Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
- Synonyms:
- pigheaded
- Holding together; cohesive.
- The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave
- Synonyms:
- coherent
- Having a good memory; retentive.
- Synonyms:
- elephantlike
tenacious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tenacious in Hindi
- tenacious
- सख़्त saxt
tenacious in Tamil
- உறுதிப்பிடிப்பான, விடாது பற்றியுள்ள, விடாப்பிடியான, ஒட்டிக்கொள்ளும், ஒட்டும்
tenacious in Marathi
- tenacious; importunate; unyielding, unrelaxing
- चामट cāmaṭ
tenacious in Urdu
- کڑا, خودسر, مشکل, ضدی
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- tenacious in Bengali
- নাছোড়বান্দা, দৃঢ়প্রতিজ্ঞ
- tenacious in Malayalam
- മുറുകെപ്പിടിക്കുന്ന, ദൃഢനിശ്ചയമുളള, ഉറപ്പാർന്ന, ദൃഢഗ്രാഹിയായ
- tenacious in Kannada
- ಪಟ್ಟುಬಿಡದ, ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡದ, ಭದ್ರವಾಗಿ ಹಿಡಿದ, ಜಗ್ಗದ
- tenacious in Indonesian
- ngotot
Examples of tenacious in a sentence
- "Full of beans, full of life, gung-ho, fearless, tenacious at anything he attempted."
- The most challenging documentary discoveries were made by a tenacious archival ferret, Dr Antonio Bertoletti.
- The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left.
Synonyms of tenacious
Forms of tenacious
| comparative | more tenacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tenacious |
Origin of tenacious
From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.
Words formed from tenacious
Words that rhyme with tenacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
- acanthaceous
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- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about tenacious
- What does tenacious mean?
- Tenacious means clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- What is tenacious in Hindi?
- Tenacious in Hindi is सख़्त (saxt). See Tenacious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tenacious?
- Tenacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tenacious?
- Tenacious is pronounced /təˈneɪʃəs/ (UK).
Words near tenacious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenacious (page history and authors); सख़्त (Hindi) (page history and authors); tenacious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चामट (Marathi) (page history and authors); tenacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenacious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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