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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-150/
- Published: 2024-12-28T17:15:04.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-28T17:15:03.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

tenacious (adjective): 

1a: not easily pulled apart : cohesive

b: tending to adhere or cling especially to another substance

2a: persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired

b: retentive

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenacious?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : For the more than 400 years that tenacious has been a part of the English language, it has adhered closely to its Latin antecedent: tenāx, an adjective meaning "holding fast," "clinging," or "persistent." Almost from the first, tenacious could suggest either literal adhesion or figurative stick-to-itiveness. Sandburs are tenacious, and so are athletes who don't let defeat get them down. We use tenacious of a good memory, too—one that has a better than average capacity to hold information. But you can also have too much of a good thing: the addition in Latin of the prefix per- ("thoroughly") to tenāx led to the English word pertinacious, meaning "perversely persistent." You might use pertinacious for the likes of rumors and spam calls, for example.

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