tenacious

tenacious
adj
1. adhesive, clinging; holding fast, keeping a firm hold; cohesive, tough; viscous, viscid, sticky, mucilaginous, glutinous, gummy.
2. retentive, retaining, unforgetful, unforgetting; grasping, recollective.
3. steadfast, determined, resolute, purposeful, strong-minded, strong-willed; persistent, pertinacious, unfaltering, undeviating, unswerving, unshaken; unchangeable, unalterable, uncompromising, unyielding, inflexible, intransigent; obstinate, stubborn, dogged, mulish, Inf. cussed, pigheaded, stiff-necked, perverse; opinionated, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, partisan, dogmatic; grim, set, hard-set, hard-bitten; arbitrary, relentless, inexorable, adamantine; obdurate, refractory, contumacious.

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