tenacious

  • (a) good at remembering
    • a retentive mind
    • tenacious memory
    recollective, retentive, long,
  • (s) stubbornly unyielding
    • dogged persistence
    • dour determination
    • the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
    • "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot
    • men tenacious of opinion
    dogged, dour, pertinacious, unyielding, persistent,
  • (s) sticking together
    • two coherent sheets
    • tenacious burrs
    coherent,

Synonyms

recollective retentive long dogged dour pertinacious unyielding persistent coherent

Antonyms

forgetful unretentive short

See also

mindful aware

Words of close approximity

tenaciously tenaciousness