Antonyms for tenacious

Antonyms for (adj) tenacious

Main entry: tenacious, recollective, retentive, long

Definition: good at remembering

Usage: a retentive mind; tenacious memory

Antonyms: unretentive, forgetful, short

Definition: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range


Main entry: coherent, tenacious

Definition: sticking together

Usage: two coherent sheets; tenacious burrs

Antonyms: nonadhesive

Definition: not tending to adhere


Main entry: unyielding, dogged, dour, tenacious, persistent, pertinacious

Definition: stubbornly unyielding

Usage: 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

Antonyms: regenerate

Definition: reformed spiritually or morally


Antonyms: docile

Definition: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed


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