Definitions for tenacious

tenacious te·na·cious

Spelling: [tuh-ney-shuh s]
IPA: /təˈneɪ ʃəs/

Tenacious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 740 anagrams from letters in tenacious (aceinostu).

Definitions for tenacious

adjective

  1. holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of):
  2. highly retentive:
  3. pertinacious, persistent, stubborn, or obstinate.
  4. adhesive or sticky; viscous or glutinous.
  5. holding together; cohesive; not easily pulled asunder; tough.

Origin of tenacious

First recorded in 1600-10; tenaci(ty) + -ous

Examples for tenacious

“The only way to get justice is to patient and persistent and tenacious,” Browder says.

My mother's imagination was as vivacious, but not as tenacious as my own.

To the man who had done him some service, of tenacious memory.

He knew that here was a bold and tenacious spirit, kin to that of Grant.

Ware, a tenacious pass-rusher, is a 7-time Pro Bowler and the Cowboys all-time leader in sacks, with 117 in nine seasons.

Ganymede was of a tenacious mettle, and of this he now afforded proof.

But tenacious Albanian partisans kept reinserting the claim.

She seldom showed any anger; but when she did it was tenacious, and slow to be appeased.

Attention all you Darwinists still battling the tenacious Creationists (and losing miserably)!

For half a century, Ferencz, a tenacious 95-year-old, has been on his own Lemkin-esque campaign.

Word Value for tenacious
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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