1. tenacious - Adjective
2. tenacious - Adjective Satellite
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.
Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWomen are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. Honoré de Balzac
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. Albert Memmi
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. Gabriel García Márquez
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy. Alexander Maclaren
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Chuck Palahniuk