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Adjective: tenacious  tu'neyshus
  1. Good at remembering
    "tenacious memory"
    - retentive, recollective, long
     
  2. Stubbornly unyielding
    "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"; "men tenacious of opinion"
    - dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding
     
  3. Sticking together
    "tenacious burrs"
    - coherent

See also: adhesive, aware, mindful, obstinate, stubborn, tenaciously, tenaciousness, unregenerate

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