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Pertinacious

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Adjective

1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

stubbornly unyielding

Example Sentences:
'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'
'men tenacious of opinion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pertinacious

see synonyms of pertinacious
adjective
1. 
doggedly resolute in purpose or belief; unyielding
2. 
stubbornly persistent

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Pertinacious

see synonyms of pertinacious
adjective
1. 
holding firmly to some purpose, belief, or action, often stubbornly or obstinately
2. 
hard to get rid of; unyielding; persistent

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pertinacious

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adj.
1. Holding tenaciously or stubbornly to a purpose, opinion, or course of action: a pertinacious heretic; pertinacious defiance.
2. Extremely persistent or unyielding: pertinacious researchers.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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