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determined
Having one's mind made up; decided; resolved
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  1. Having one's mind made up; decided; resolved
  2. Marked by or showing determination; resolute:
  3. Decided or resolved:
attentive
Paying close attention; alert or observant:
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  1. Paying close attention; alert or observant:
  2. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
  3. Showing care for the needs or desires of others; caring or courteous.
tenacious
That retains well; retentive
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  1. That retains well; retentive
  2. Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring:
  3. Holding together firmly; cohesive:
stubborn
Done or carried on in an obstinate or doggedly persistent manner
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  1. Done or carried on in an obstinate or doggedly persistent manner
  2. Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
  3. Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
insistent
Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
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  1. Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
  2. Repetitive and persistent:
  3. Insisting or demanding; persistent in demands or assertions
perverse
Obstinately disobedient or difficult; intractable
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  1. Obstinately disobedient or difficult; intractable
  2. Deviating from what is considered right or good; wrong, improper, etc. or corrupt, wicked, etc.; specif., sexually perverted
  3. Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
persistent
Refusing to relent; continuing, esp. in the face of opposition, interference, etc.; stubborn; persevering
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  1. Refusing to relent; continuing, esp. in the face of opposition, interference, etc.; stubborn; persevering
  2. Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
  3. Continuing to exist or endure; lasting without change
bullheaded
Extremely or irrationally stubborn; headstrong.
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  1. Extremely or irrationally stubborn; headstrong.
  2. Unreasonably stubborn.
  3. Blindly stubborn; headstrong
dogged
Stubbornly persevering, steadfast.
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  1. Stubbornly persevering, steadfast.
  2. Not giving in readily; persistent; stubborn
  3. Stubbornly persevering; tenacious:
hardheaded
Realistic; pragmatic.
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  1. Realistic; pragmatic.
  2. Shrewd and unsentimental; practical; matter-of-fact
  3. Stubborn; obstinate; dogged
headstrong
Determined to have one's own way; stubbornly and often recklessly willful.
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  1. Determined to have one's own way; stubbornly and often recklessly willful.
  2. Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
  3. Showing such determination
mulish
Resembling a mule:
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  1. Resembling a mule:
  2. Extremely or irrationally stubborn and intractable.
  3. Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable
obstinate
Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
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  1. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
  2. Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
  3. Characterized by such adherence:
perverse
Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
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  1. Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
  2. Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable:
  3. Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
pigheaded
(Pejorative) Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
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  1. (Pejorative) Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
  2. Stubborn; obstinate; mulish
  3. Stupidly obstinate.
stiff-necked
Stubborn and arrogant or aloof.
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  1. Stubborn and arrogant or aloof.
  2. Stubborn; obstinate
tenacious
Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring:
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  1. Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring:
  2. Tending to retain; retentive:
  3. Persistent; stubborn
willful
Obstinately bent on having one's own way:
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  1. Obstinately bent on having one's own way:
  2. Said or done on purpose; deliberate:
  3. Stubborn.
obstinate
Difficult to alleviate or cure.
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  1. Difficult to alleviate or cure.
  2. Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
  3. Characterized by such adherence:
persistent
Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
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  1. Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
  2. Refusing to relent; continuing, esp. in the face of opposition, interference, etc.; stubborn; persevering
  3. Continuing to exist or endure; lasting without change
stubborn
Refusing to yield, obey, or comply; resisting doggedly or unreasonably; resolute or obstinate
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  1. Refusing to yield, obey, or comply; resisting doggedly or unreasonably; resolute or obstinate
  2. Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
  3. Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
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Sentence Examples

  • Apart from his pertinacious fight for economy Hume was not always fortunate in his political activity.

  • The Cabetes, who possessed the soil, were fierce and pertinacious; and, assisted by the French, who traded to that coast, Coelho had to gain by inches what was granted him by leagues.

  • Extremely pertinacious in this respect, the poet went on attempting to storm the theatre, with assault upon assault, all practically failures until the seventh and last, which was unfortunately posthumous.

  • But it was on the part of the Dutch that the most skilful and pertinacious efforts were made for securing a footing in Brazil; and they alone of all the rivals of the Portuguese have left traces of their presence in the national spirit and institutions of Brazil.

  • In conversation he was a singularly eager, acute and pertinacious disputant.

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