Importune

Definition: Importune

Importune

Verb

1. Beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them".

Date "importune" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Importune

Synonym: insist (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pain	Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.
Request	Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Importune

English words defined with "importune": Flagitate ♦ Importuned, Importunely, Importuning, insist ♦ Reimportune. (references)

Etymologies containing "importune": importunate. (references)

Author	Quotation
Thomas Gray	Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Importune" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Importune" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "importune"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qepem (cling, follow up, pursue, stick, Wed), kërkoj me ngut, bezdis (bore, displease, get, grate, Harrow, hassle, inconvenience, nag, peeve, persecute, pester, press, pursue, ruffle, tease, trouble, vex). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملحف (importunate), ‏ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, salt, stringent, urgent), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏لحف, ‏ضجر (be fed up, bore, bored, boredom, dullness, fed up, give up, irk, plumb, tedium, tire, tiredness, weariness, weary), ‏ألح على (solicit), ‏أغرى (addict, bait, beckon, bring, entice, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex). (various references)

Bulgarian		вадя душата на (pester, plague, ride), ненавременен (ill timed, ill-judged, inexpedient, inopportune, premature, unseasonable, unseemly, untimely), настойчив (aggressive, earnest, importunate, insistent, persistent, pressing), моля настойчиво (entreat, urge). (various references)

Czech		naléhavì žádat (plead). (various references)

Farsi		مصرانه خواستن , مصرانه (Shrill), سماجت کردن (Dun, Persist), عاجزکردن (Bay, Beset, Confound, Disable, Harass), اصرارکردن به , ابرام کردن (Urge). (various references)

Finnish		ahdistaa (attack, be tight, beset, harass, heckle, oppress, pinch, press). (various references)

French		importuner, importun (importunate), racoler, harceler, ennuyer. (various references)

German		belästigen (annoy, badger, be disturbing, bother, disturb, harass, hinder, irritate, molest, persecute, pester, to bother, to discommode, to importune, to incommode, to molest, to pester, trouble). (various references)

Greek		γίνομαι φορτικόσ, ζητώ επίμονα. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פציר בתח� ו� ים, ל�"חוק (oppress, pack, pinch, press, squeeze, thrust, urge), לסר�"ב (beseech, hasten, press, urge). (various references)

Hungarian		zaklat (badger, bait, beset, harass, Harry, inconvenience, molest, obsess, persecute, pester, to badger, to bait, to bother, to bug, to chivvy, to chivy, to fuss, to get into sy's hair, to harass, to harry, to importune, to inflict, to needle, to obsess, to persecute, to torment, to vex). (various references)

Italian		importunare (annoy, bother, trouble), sollecitare (canvass, hasten, hurry, press for, solicit, stress, tickle, urge, woo). (various references)

Manx		sheer-yeearree. (various references)

Pig Latin		importuneay.(various references)

Portuguese		incómodo (ailment, annoyance, annoying, awkward, bumbling, cumbersome, cumbrous, discomfort, dreadful, heavy-laden, incommodious, inconvenience, inconvertible, intrusive, left-hander, meddler, muff, nagging, nuisance, pesky, plaguy, ragtime, rush, shrill, thorn, tiresome, trouble, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing, worrisome), importunar (badger, bother, devil, disturb, hinder, incommode, lay the blame on, nag, persecute, pester, pick at, plague, pursue, solicit, tease, tire, trouble), molestar (annoy, bother, disturb, grieve, gripe, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenient, leech craft, molest, offend, trouble, vex, worry), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bore, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, distasteful, fash, feeze, hateful, hump, irk, leech, loathe, molestation, nag, nettle rash, offend, pester, pique, plague, put about, spite, tire, torment, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian		importuna (incommode, inconvenience, intrude one's presence on smb.), se ruga cu insistenţã, fi pisãlog, agãţa (accost, attach, clench, grapple, hang, hook, suspend). (various references)

Russian		выпрашивать (beg, wangle, wheedle), настойчиво домогаться, докучать (persecute, pester). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		saletati (assail, besiege, pester, ply, solicit, urge), navaljivati (insist, press). (various references)

Spanish		importunar (badger, molest, nagging, pester, solicit, tease, trouble). (various references)

Swedish		besvära (ail, annoy, appeal, bother, complain, disoblige, disturb, embarrass, encumber, incommode, inconvenience, pester, plague, protest, trouble). (various references)

Turkish		sıkboğaz etmek (hustle, rush, rush smb. off one's feet), başının etini yemek (badger, be at smb., bite smb.'s head off, nag, plague smb.'s life out), ısrarla istemek (exact, solicit). (various references)

Ukranian		турбувати (afflict, ail, annoy, commove, concern, derange, disoblige, embarrass, faze, gnaw, harass, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, put about, work, worry), вимагати (ask, call for, challenge, charge, claim, cry for, demand, extort, necessitate, postulate, racketeer, require, sweat out, want, wring), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), настирливо домагатися, наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, insistent, obstinate, patient, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fatigari, fatigati, fatigatis, fatigatus, fatigemini, fatigeris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "importune": importuned, importunely, importuner, importuners, importunes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Importune" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: importume, importun, importunre, importure, impromtue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: eruption, orpiment.
	-2 letters: imputer, minuter, mounter, pimento, pinetum, pointer, poutier, promine, protein, protium, remount, routine, tropine, unmiter, unmitre.
	-3 letters: impone, import, impure, impute, inpour, iterum, mentor, merino, minter, minuet, minute, mopier, murein, murine, mutine, norite, optime, orient, orpine, permit, pitmen, pointe, potmen, pouter, protei, pterin, punier, punter, purine, remint, roupet, tenour, tonier, triune, trompe, tropin, troupe, turnip, umpire, uniter, unripe, untrim, uptime, uptore, uptorn.
	-4 letters: enorm, erupt, inept, inert, input, inter, intro, inure, irone, merit, metro, miner, minor, miter, mitre, moire, monie, monte, moper, mount, mourn, muter, muton, netop, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, notum, onium, opine, opium, orpin, ourie, outer, outre, pinot, pinto, piton, point, prime, primo, print, prion, proem, prone, prune, punto, purin, puton, remit, repin, repot, ripen, rouen, route, rumen, rutin, tempi, tempo, tenor, timer, toner, toper, trine, tripe, tromp, trone, trope, trump, tumor, tuner, unite, unmet, unrip, untie, urine, uteri.
	-5 letters: emir, emit, etui, euro, inro, into, iron, item, meno, menu, meou, mien, mine, mint, mire, mite, mope, more, morn, mort, mote, moue, muni, muon, mure, mute, neum, nite, noir, nome, nope, nori, norm, note, omen, omer, omit, open, pein, pent, peon, peri, perm, pert, pier, pine, pint, pion, pirn, poem, poet, pome, pone, pore, porn, port, pour, pout, prim, prom, punt, pure, puri, rein, rent, repo, rime, riot, ripe, rite, romp, rope, rote, roti, roue, roup, rout, ruin, rump, rune, runt, temp, term, tern, tier, time, tine, tire, tiro, tome, tone, tope, topi, tore, tori, torn, tour, trim, trio, trip, trop, true, tump, tune, turn, unit, unto, upon.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-o-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: importuned, importuner, importunes, peritoneum, resumption.
	+2 letters: computernik, importunate, importunely, importuners, mucoprotein, peritoneums, permutation, premunition, presumption, recomputing, resumptions.
	+3 letters: computerniks, minicomputer, mucoproteins, multipronged, overtrumping, permutations, precomputing, premunitions, presumptions, reassumption, unimportance.
	+4 letters: computerising, computerizing, immunotherapy, importunately, importunities, micropuncture, minicomputers, mousetrapping, outperforming, paramountcies, perambulation, permutational, precombustion, primogeniture, reassumptions, recomputation, superromantic, unimportances, unproblematic.
	+5 letters: circumspection, mercaptopurine, micropunctures, perambulations, precombustions, preformulating, primogenitures, pronunciamento, recomputations, spermatogonium, supernormality, uncomputerized.
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