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PERTINACIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pertinacious mean?
• PERTINACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective PERTINACIOUS has 1 sense:
1. stubbornly unyielding
Familiarity information: PERTINACIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stubbornly unyielding
Synonyms:
dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding
Context example:
men tenacious of opinion
Similar:
obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)
Derivation:
pertinacity (persistent determination)
Context examples
For Demi inherited a trifle of his sire's firmness of character, we won't call it obstinacy, and when he made up his little mind to have or to do anything, all the king's horses and all the king's men could not change that pertinacious little mind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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