pertinacious English

Meaning pertinacious meaning

What does pertinacious mean?

pertinacious

— adjective (= dogged, dour, tenacious, unyielding) 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

Synonyms pertinacious synonyms

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pertinacious English » English

dogged

tenacious

stubborn

persistent

obstinate

persevering

unyielding

willful

wilful

refractory

insistent

importunate

eager

dour

ardent

ambitious

wrongheaded

unswerving

unsubmissive

tough

stubbornly

strongheaded

stiff-necked

self willed

self opinionated

purposeful

pigheaded

perverse

pertinaciously

opinionative

opinionated

obstinately

naughty

mischievous

intractable

hidebound

headstrong

hardheaded

doggedly

do-or-die

determined

contumacious

confirmed

bulldog

besetting

adamantine

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Determined

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