tenacious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
  2. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
  3. Holding together; cohesive.
    — The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]
  4. Having a good memory; retentive.

词形变化

more tenacious comparative most tenacious superlative

词汇关系

近义词
sticky steadfast memorious
衍生词
overtenacious untenacious
相关词
tenaciously tenaciousness tenacity

词源

From Latin tenāx (“holding fast, clinging”), from tenēre (“to hold”), + -ious.
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