tenacious


tenacious (http://definr.com/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]