tenacious

adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour

determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of

all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth

but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious

of opinion" [syn: {bulldog}, {dogged}, {dour}, {pertinacious},

{unyielding}]

2: (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long

memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" [syn:

{long}]

3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"

[syn: {coherent}]