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From Latin tenāx (holding fast, clinging), from tenēre (to hold), +‎ -ious.

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tenacious (comparative more tenacious, superlative most tenacious)

  1. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
  2. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
  3. Holding together; cohesive.
    • 1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave:
      The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead []
  4. Having a good memory; retentive.

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