Crossword clues for tenacious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenacious \Te*na"cious\, a. [L. tenax, -acis, from tenere to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Tenace.]
Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
--Sir I. Newton.Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. ``Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay.''
--Cowper.Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
--Ainsworth.Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. [1913 Webster] -- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Te*na"cious*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 clinging to an object or surface; adhesive 2 unwilling to yield or give up; dogged 3 holding together; cohesive 4 having a good memory; retentive
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, unyielding]
(of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" [syn: long]
sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent]
Wikipedia
Tenacious may refer to:
Ships:
- HMS Tenacious (R45), a Royal Navy destroyer
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, an R class destroyer (1916)
- RSS Tenacious (71), a Formidable class frigate of the Republic of Singapore Navy
- USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17), a United States Navy Ocean Surveillance Ship
- SV Tenacious, a British sail training ship
- Tenacious, a racing yacht owned and skippered by Ted Turner and winner of the 1979 Fastnet Race
Other uses:
- Tenacious (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Tenacious Records, a record label founded by percussionist Alphonse Mouzon
Tenacious (1954–1967) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was one of the most popular ever to compete in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1966, Fair Grounds Race Course inaugurated the Tenacious Handicap in his honor and on his death in 1967, a memorial plaque was installed in the track's infield and following its creation in 1971, he was inducted in the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame.
Tenacious was bred and raced by Dorothy Dorsett Brown, wife of Joe W. Brown, a prominent Louisiana oilman and owner of the Horseshoe Club Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Out of the mare Dorothy B. Jr., Tenacious was sired by Challedon, the 1939 American Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.
Trained by John Theall, for the majority of his important wins Tenacious was by ridden by Cajun jockey Ray Broussard. The horse competed for six years during which time he was a three-time winner of both the Louisiana Handicap 1 2 3 and the Lecomte Handicap. 4 5 Among his other accomplishments, Tenacious won back-to-back editions of the New Orleans Handicap. 6
Retired from racing after the 1962 season, Tenacious sired only a limited number of foals before he died unexpectedly on December 17, 1967 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
Usage examples of "tenacious".
The thing kept a tenacious claw-hold on life until past two in the morning, when it expired with a long moan and a trickle of foul citric saliva.
The expectorated matter is at first whitish, opaque, and tenacious, mixed sometimes with a frothy mucus, requiring considerable coughing to loosen it and throw it off.
Here the squatters garnered practically the whole of their exiguous income, and their tenacious persistence was rapidly making the section degenerate toward a slum.
They cut them in half while still green, scraped out the light remaining pulp when dry, and dragged them down with the minimum of trouble, light as feathers, tenacious as steel plate, and already in the form and fashion of dainty craft from five to twenty feet in length, when the process was completed.
He had been exiled to Asia, but only for a short time, for, as he told me, the cabals are not so tenacious in Turkey as they are in Europe, and particularly at the court of Vienna.
Only in the deepest cracks the mosses grew, and the tenacious roots of the blue-green arkenfir.
The couplings and devices that held it in place were of a strength that was hard to really believe in: metal that thick, that rustless, a hold that perfectly crafted, that tenacious.
The arrival was Toyne, the secretary who had lost his tenacious grapple with The Shadow, the night before.
The planet matured into a jungle world, a landscape of swamps and lush verdancy, where giant ferns covered the surface from pole to pole, and were themselves webbed and choked with tenacious creepers reaching for the clear sky.
But the Boer is a tenacious fighter, and many a brave man was still to fall before Buller and White should shake hands in the High Street of Ladysmith.
He tilled small plots of soil, reclaimed from bedrock and tenacious scrub, for the high hills of the Djenn Marre were generally inhospitable to farming.
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.
Luzhin meanwhile fixed his motionless and expressionless gaze on an eggshell-white plaque with a black inscription, Veritas, but Valentinov immediately swept him farther and lowered him into an armchair of the club variety that was even more tenacious and quaggy than the car seat.
The surfaces themselves were pitted and rough from melting and refreezing unevenly over the years, and a few small tenacious plants had actually taken root on the ice.
The Guardians of Selfhood are annoyingly tenacious in their attacks on our landline.