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pertinacious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pertinacious

1 continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement

a pertinacious little boy who was determined to catch and collect reptiles

Synonyms of pertinacious

dogged, insistent, patient, persevering, persistent, tenacious

Words Related to pertinacious

assured, certain, dedicated, determined, firm, hell-bent, intent, positive, resolute, resolved, single-minded, sure

adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, indurate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unregenerate, unyielding, willful (or wilful)

unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering

resistant, wayward, wrongheaded

constant, devoted, faithful, good, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true

indomitable, unconquerable

hard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelenting

Near Antonyms of pertinacious

quitting, surrendering, yielding

faltering, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, wavering

disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous

2 sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

a pertinacious salesman who would simply not take "No!" for an answer

Synonyms of pertinacious

adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)

Words Related to pertinacious

anal-retentive, obsessive

wayward, wrongheaded

determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching

firm, hard-line, hard-shell (or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, strict

hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid

bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous

contrary, cussed

contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly

defiant, insurgent, mutinous

indomitable, invincible, unconquerable

confirmed, inveterate, unregenerate

demanding, exacting

Phrases Synonymous with pertinacious

Near Antonyms of pertinacious

docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractable

accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing

governable, manageable, reasonable, temperate

slavish, subservient

Antonyms of pertinacious

acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding

Synonym Discussion of pertinacious

obstinate, dogged, stubborn, pertinacious, mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence.

- an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories

dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence.

- pursued the story with dogged perseverance

stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable.

- a person too stubborn to admit error

pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence.

- a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer

mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy.

- a mulish determination to have his own way

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