Pertinacious \Per`ti*na"cious\, a. [L. pertinax, -acis; per +
tenax tenacious. See Per-, and Tenacious.]
1. Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design,
with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as,
pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
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2. Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.
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Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious
study. --South.
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Syn: Obstinate; stubborn; inflexible; unyielding; resolute;
determined; firm; constant; steady.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pertinacious
adj : stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all
the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but
tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of
opinion" [syn: bulldog, dogged, dour, tenacious,
unyielding]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "pertinacious":
assiduous, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulldoggish,
bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, clamant, clamorous,
constant, continuing, crying, demanding, diligent, dogged,
dogmatic, draining, enduring, exacting, exigent, exorbitant,
extortionate, faithful, fanatic, fixed, game, gamy, grasping,
gritty, gutsy, gutty, hardheaded, headstrong, immutable,
importunate, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious,
insistent, instant, intolerant, invincible, lasting, loud, loyal,
mettlesome, mulish, nervy, never-tiring, obstinate, opinionated,
overzealous, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant,
persevering, persistent, persisting, perverse, pigheaded, plodding,
plucky, plugging, preoccupied, pressing, rapt, red-blooded,
refractory, relentless, resolute, restive, sedulous, self-willed,
set, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, spirited, spiritful,
spunky, stable, steadfast, steady, stiff-necked, strong-willed,
strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, taxing, tenacious, tireless,
tough, unabating, unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted,
undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding,
unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unshakable,
unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied,
unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, urgent, utterly attentive,
weariless, willful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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