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Another word for pertinacious

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Adjective

  1. Tenaciously unwilling to yield

    See also:

    resist

  2. Difficult to alleviate or cure

      1. Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.
      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:
      1. Refusing to give up or let go; persevering obstinately.
      2. Insistently repetitive or continuous:
      3. Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
      1. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
      2. Characterized by such adherence:
      3. Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
    See also:

    continue

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Another word for pertinacious

Modifier

  1. Resolute

    See also:

    resolute

  2. Obstinate

      1. Refusing to give up or let go; persevering obstinately.
      2. Insistently repetitive or continuous:
      3. Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring:
      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:
      1. Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
      2. Demanding attention or a response:
      3. Repetitive and persistent:
      1. Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.
      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:
    See also:

    obstinate

    obstinate

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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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