persistent
Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
Example
“She has had a persistent cough for weeks.”
Other meanings
Insistently repetitive.
“There was a persistent knocking on the door.”
Indefinitely continuous.
“There have been persistent rumours for years.”
Related words
- antipersistent
- biopersistent
- hyperpersistent
- impersistent
- nonpersistent
- semipersistent
- non-null persistent
- null persistent
- persistent adrenarche syndrome
- persistent cloaca
- persistent cross-site scripting
- persistent organic pollutant
Word history
From Latin "persistēns".
Where this comes from
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