| English | French |
|---|---|
| tenacious | qui tient fortement |
| tenacious | qui ne lâche pas |
| tenacious | opiniâtre |
| tenacious | entêté |
| tenacious | tenace |
| tenacious | obstiné |
| English - Wordnet 3.0 | |
|---|---|
ADJECTIVE (3) 1. good at remembering; - Example: "a retentive mind" - Example: "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] 2. stubbornly unyielding; - Example: "dogged persistence" - Example: "dour determination" - Example: "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics" - Example: "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot - Example: "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 3. sticking together; - Example: "two coherent sheets" - Example: "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent, tenacious] |