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persistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | haunting |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | relentless, unrelenting |
| Derivation | persistence, persistency, persist |
persistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| Derivation | persistence |
persistent::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lasting |
| Derivation | persist |
persistent leaves remain attached past maturity.
the persistent gills of fishes.
Examples of persistent
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He had earlier convictions and was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender.
From the stltoday.com
Too persistent, and you're as creepy as a mustachioed man in an ice cream truck.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Somali pirates can be persistent but do you want to know who is more persistent?
From the economist.com
This is a co-ordinated campaign to change the behaviour of persistent offenders.
From the harrowtimes.co.uk
Yet your file shows a quiet, but persistent, questioning about a path not taken.
From the theatlantic.com
People born under that sign are said to be hardworking, tolerant and persistent.
From the al.com
Some cancers and other medical conditions can cause prolonged, persistent fever.
From the denverpost.com
Nadal has been a persistent critic regarding the compressed clay-court schedule.
From the usatoday.com
Like a lot of families, we stayed home and kvetched about our persistent winter.
From the dailyherald.com
- Never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- Haunting: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
- Retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
- Dogged: 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"
- (persistence) continuity: the property of a continuous and connected period of time
- (persistence) perseverance: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"
- (Persistence (linguistics)) In linguistics, persistence (as defined by Paul Hopper), refers to one of the five principles by which you can detect grammaticalization while it is taking place. The other four are: layering, divergence, specialization, and de-categorialization.
- (Persistence (log canoe)) The Persistence is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in the 1890s, possibly by John B. Harrison in Tilghman, Maryland. She measures 32'-4 1/2" long, with a beam of 6'-11 1/2" and is double-ended with no longhead on her bow. ...
- (Persistence (programming)) Persistence in computer science refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it. Without this capability, state would only exist in RAM, and would be lost when this RAM loses power, such as a computer shutdown.
