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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 a fish
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, 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, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
Words Related to pertinacious

obsessive

wayward, wrongheaded

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

firm, hard-line, iron, severe, stern, strict

hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid

cantankerous

contrary, cussed

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

deaf to reason
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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