Usually means: Holding on firmly and persistently.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenaciously: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenaciously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenaciously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tenaciously: Vocabulary.com
  5. tenaciously: Wordnik
  6. tenaciously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tenaciously: Wiktionary
  8. tenaciously: Dictionary.com
  9. tenaciously: Rhymezone
  10. tenaciously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. tenaciously: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tenaciously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. tenaciously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenaciously: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenaciously: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tenaciously: Medical dictionary

(Note: See tenacious as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a tenacious manner.

Similar:
doggedly, pertinaciously, clingingly, untiringly, tensilely, determinedly, pertinaceously, perseveringly, insistingly, pertinately, more...

Opposite:
weakly, loosely, easily, irresolutely

Types:
tenacious, persistent, determined, resolute, firm, resolved, steadfast, fierce, fervent, more...

Colors:
    steel blue,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     forest green,     burnt umber, more...

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Similar:
doggedly, pertinaciously, clingingly, untiringly, tensilely, determinedly, pertinaceously, perseveringly, insistingly, pertinately, more...

Opposite:
weakly, loosely, easily, irresolutely

Types:
tenacious, persistent, determined, resolute, firm, resolved, steadfast, fierce, fervent, more...

Colors:
    steel blue,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     forest green,     burnt umber, more...



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