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HOME | Definition of importunate (IMPORTUNATE, Importunate)


    Importunate \Im*por"tu*nate\ ([i^]m*p[^o]r"t[-u]*n[asl]t), a.
    [See Importune.]
    1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous;
    overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an
    importunate petitioner, curiosity. --Whewell.
    [1913 Webster]

    2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. [R.] --Donne. --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    importunate
    adj : expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened
    look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand
    for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in
    her voice" [syn: appealing, imploring, pleading]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    75 Moby Thesaurus words for "importunate":
    aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, cajoling, choiceless,
    clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compulsory, controlled, crying,
    demanding, disturbing, draining, dunning, exacting, exasperating,
    exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, firm-minded, forward, galling,
    grasping, harassing, imperative, importune, independent, insistent,
    instant, irking, irksome, irritating, loud, mandatory, nagging,
    necessary, necessitous, obligatory, persistent, pertinacious,
    pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome,
    plaguey, plaguing, pressing, provoking, pushy, self-asserting,
    self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed,
    self-restrained, strong-minded, strong-willed, taxing, teasing,
    tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, urgent, vexatious,
    vexing, wearisome, wheedling, without choice, worrisome,
    worrying

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


appealing, imploring, pleading


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