Crossword-Solution: TENACIOUS 9 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Tenacious a. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to
retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Tenacious a. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Tenacious a. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive;
tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Tenacious a. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous;
sticking; adhesive.
Tenacious a. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Tenacious a. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate;
stubborn.

We have 35 clues for the answer “TENACIOUS”

Clue Answers
Like bulldogs 1 answer
Highly retentive 1 answer
Dogged cardinal going over account with evidence of debts 1 answer
Continuing to exist for longer than might be expected 1 answer
Clinging strongly 1 answer
Bulldoglike 1 answer
Holding firmly 2 answers
clingy 4 answers
Derek, Bo film 10 answers
DEREK, BO SPOUSE 10 answers
DEREK, BO 10 answers
Unflinching 19 answers
gummy 21 answers
undaunted 33 answers
Implacable 36 answers
Bull-headed 44 answers
froward 53 answers
ungovernable 54 answers
Reflective. 60 answers
Continual 61 answers
obstreperous 65 answers
Unruly 75 answers
Persistent 75 answers
Steadfast 76 answers
quarrelsome 76 answers
Enduring 76 answers
dogged 77 answers
Dependable 77 answers
Defiant 79 answers
Obstinate 82 answers
Certain 84 answers
Stubborn 85 answers
Determined 85 answers
Resolute 89 answers
Wild _____ 108 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENACIOUS (5)

The touch probably associated, as is usual, with some of the apprehensions excited by his dream; for the old man started up, his grey hair standing almost erect upon his head, and huddling some part of his garments about him, while he held the detached pieces with the tenacious grasp of a falcon, he fixed upon the Palmer his keen black eyes, expressive of wild surprise and of bodily apprehension.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
However, under tenacious questioning by Diana, Mark divulged that the `strange' note, apparently sent as an afterthought, had only been looked at by the examiners the day before coming to testify.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
Affectionately, Judy 30th September Dear Daddy, Are you still harping on that scholarship? I never knew a man so obstinate, and stubborn and unreasonable, and tenacious, and bull-doggish, and unable-to-see-other-people's-point-of-view, as you.
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008
They have one troublesome and tenacious parent left who won't sign a surrender, so I can't place them out for adoption.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with TENACIOUS (3)

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A first glance A first smile A first kiss A first fall…(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.) You were wearing these during one of those moments. One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you. The way you gave me butterflies that morning Had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else, and everything to do with you. I was falling in lov…
Colleen Hoover Point of Retreat
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that kne…
Parker J. Palmer A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.
Coco J. Ginger
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2015).