tenacious
/tuh-NAY-shus/adjectiveholding firmly to something; persistent
“A tenacious reporter kept the story alive for two years.”
- Synonyms
- persistent, dogged, resolute
- Antonyms
- irresolute, yielding
- Root
- ten- (hold)
- Memory hook
- ten (hold) + acious: holding on hard.
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