tenaciousness
111inflexibility — n 1. rigidity, stiffness, unbendableness, unadjustability, unyieldingness; firmness, tenseness, unmalleability, unlimberness; hardness, petrifaction, fossilization, crystallization, vitrification, flintiness. 2. immovability, unadaptability,… …
112insistence — n 1. emphasis, stress, pressure, importunity; underlining, underscoring, insisting; perseverance, persistence, insistency, determination, singleness of purpose, Inf. stick to it iveness, pertinacity, tenacity, tenaciousness, obstinacy. 2.… …
113intractability — n 1. intractableness, indocility, unsubmissiveness, insubmission, incompliance, incompli ancy, uncooperativeness, nonconformity; stubbornness, obstinateness, obstinacy, pervicaciousness, pig head edness, mulishness, obdurateness, hard headedness …
114obstinacy — n 1. inflexibility, immovability, stiff neckedness, Inf. hardcoreness; inexorableness, implacability, intransigence, intractability, unyieldingness; unmalleability, unpersuadability, uninfluenceability, unswayability, unpliability. 2.… …
115perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
116tenacity — n 1. tenaciousness, adhesiveness, adhesion, cohesiveness, toughness, strength, resilience; vis cousness, viscidity, glutinousness, stickiness, gumminess, mucilaginousness. 2. retentivity, retentiveness, retention; readiness of memory, grasp, grip …
117tenacious — /təˈneɪʃəs / (say tuh nayshuhs) adjective 1. holding fast; characterised by keeping a firm hold. 2. highly retentive: a tenacious memory. 3. pertinacious, persistent, stubborn, or obstinate. 4. adhesive or sticky; viscous or glutinous. 5. holding …
118tenacious — [tə nā′shəs] adj. [L tenax (gen. tenacis) < tenere, to hold: see TENANT] 1. holding firmly [a tenacious grip] 2. that retains well; retentive [a tenacious memory] 3. that holds together strongly; cohesive; tough [a tenacious wood] 4 …
119recollective — adjective good at remembering a retentive mind tenacious memory • Syn: ↑retentive, ↑long, ↑tenacious • Ant: ↑unretentive (for: ↑ …
120tenacious — adj. 1 (often foll. by of) keeping a firm hold of property, principles, life, etc.; not readily relinquishing. 2 (of memory) retentive. 3 holding fast. 4 strongly cohesive. 5 persistent, resolute. 6 adhesive, sticky. Derivatives: tenaciously adv …
