Competition
Synonyms for tenacious
Synonyms for tenacious: persistent and scrappy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for tenacious
Interchangeable with tenacious in this sense
Audited under tenacious's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one tenacious carries in that sense.
- persistentadjective, in the sense "holding firmly to a course of action despite difficulty"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name tenacious as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- scrappyscrappy is an adjective in the sense "determined and willing to fight hard despite a disadvantage"
one of these comes from tenacious's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
holding firmly to a course of action despite difficulty
Her tenacious defense in the final set kept her opponent from ever finding a rhythm.
The true synonym
persistent
Same sentence, swapped: Her persistent defense in the final set kept her opponent from ever finding a rhythm.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for tenacious in the sentence quoted.
- languid
- permissive
- tentative
Where tenacious turns up in the game
tenacious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where tenacious is the trap
- coherentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is logical, in the sense "capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner", with tenacious sitting one tile away.
- coherentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ordered, in the sense "marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts", with tenacious sitting one tile away.
Play tenacious
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tenacious reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from competition at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tenacious carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.