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Definitions: Persistent |
PersistentAdjective1. Never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums". 2. Continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy. 3. (biology) retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "persistent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Persistent \Per*sist"ent\, adjective. [Latin expression persistens, -entis, present participle of persistere. See Persist.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Persistent persistence. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Mining | Continuous; orebodies are often persistent in depth and metal contents. (references) |
Public Administration | Persistent: (of toxic chemicals, especially insecticides) hard to decompose, chemically unstable and therefore degradable only over a long period of time. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: PersistentSynonyms: haunting (adj), lasting (adj), relentless (adj), unrelenting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: caducous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diuturnity | Adjective: durable; lasting; Verb: of long duration, of long-standing; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive; intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid; unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual. |
Permanence | Adjective: stable; persisting; Verb: permanent; established; unchanged; (change; ); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered; unfailing. |
Perseverance | Unintermitting, unremitting; plodding; industrious; strenuous; pertinacious; persisting, persistent. |
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Screenplays | When guys are persistent, it's romantic, they make movies about that. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) I'm not the best, but I am the most persistent. (Return to Paradise; writing credit: Pierre Jolivet; O. Schatzky) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Persistent and Finagling (1971) The Persistent Seed (1964) Persistent Dalton (1915) The Fate of Persistent Pete (1915) Those Persistent Old Maids (1914) | |
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 | The delicate, hazy, tan macular rim of this lesion, although not clinically dramatic, represents persistent melanocytic proliferation beyond the lateral limits of the common mole at its center.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Thia patient with congenital syphilis is exhibiting rhagades, which are cracks or fissures in the skin around the mouth. Such a rare type of facial disfigurement, results from persistent infantile syphilitic rhinitis.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Bleeding may be serious and persistent, leading to anemia. (references) | |
The dull pain can be temporary or persistent, mild or severe. (references) | ||
Patient-related factors also predict persistent or recurrent bleeding. (references) | ||
Business | There are persistent reports by NGO's of widespread use of torture by police and security forces. (references) | |
Declines in consumer confidence, persistent high unemployment, and low economic growth influence how Italians plan their travels and vacations. (references) | ||
In a bid to overcome a persistent drought in the north and a widespread shrinkage of water resources, the government started in 1996 to spread water-saving irrigation technology in 300 counties across China. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Philippines | In June 2000, following persistent reports that troops operating against Muslim separatists in Mindanao had desecrated mosques, the Secretary of National Defense ordered the AFP to refrain from such action. (references) |
South Africa | The SAHRC report concluded that: "To the extent that expressions in the media reflect a persistent pattern of racist expressions and content of writing that could have been avoided, the media can be characterized as racist institutions." The report recommended workshops and conferences to sensitize journalists to the risk of racial prejudice in their reporting. (references) | |
Economic History | Latvia | Foreign business representatives and non-governmental organizations such as Transparency International, have identified corruption and the perception of corruption as a persistent problem in Latvia. (references) |
Human Rights | Belize | In the past, there were persistent allegations that security forces held detainees for 72 hours and released them but upon release, rearrested them; however, there were no such allegations during the year. (references) |
Latvia | Despite efforts by the Central Prison Administration, inadequate sanitation facilities, a persistent shortage of medical care, and insufficient lighting and ventilation were common problems; all stem from a lack of resources. (references) | |
Yemen | Kidnapings had been a persistent problem in the past, due to the judiciary's frequent failure to impose sentences against accused kidnapers because some persons linked to kidnapings were members of prominent tribes or had links with such tribes. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | The Yanomami, among the most isolated of the indigenous people, have been subjected to persistent incursions into their territory by illegal gold miners, who have introduced both diseases and social ills. (references) |
Minorities | Czech Republic | A small but persistent and fairly well-organized extreme rightwing movement with anti-Semitic views exists in the country. (references) |
Yemen | Known as the "Akhdam" (servants), they live in poverty and endure persistent social discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | Prior to this year, the dirham peg remained unchanged since the nine percent devaluation in May 1990. However, due to a higher inflation rate than its European trading partners in the 1990's, persistent pressures from the IMF and World Bank to introduce greater flexibility into its exchange rate regime, and a desire to maintain its trading relationship with Europe, the central bank adjusted the value of the dirham by changing the weight of the currencies in the basket. (references) |
GERMANY | Germany has recorded persistent current account deficits since 1991 due to a drop in the country's traditionally strong trade surplus, related in part to strong consumer demand in eastern Germany. (references) | |
JAPAN | The current Koizumi government has sought to break from the policy of fiscal support by capping the government budget deficit and promising thoroughgoing structural reform "without sacred cows." The Bank of Japan has also reduced interest rates on short term funds to essentially zero, but its ability to lower real interest rates has been hampered by persistent deflation. (references) | |
Political Rights | Senegal | The ONEL significantly improved the level of transparency of the April National Assembly elections, the 1998 National Assembly elections, and the 2000 presidential election, despite persistent flaws in the electoral system. (references) |
Madagascar | There have been persistent calls by civic groups and opposition parties for reform and revision of electoral lists. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | Luxembourg has run a persistent trade deficit over the past ten years, but enjoys an overall balance of payments surplus. (references) |
Travel | Belgium | Because of Belgium's persistent unemployment rate (10 percent) resident visas are difficult to obtain for non-EU citizens. (references) |
Zimbabwe | That said, however, patient and persistent companies, especially those with effective local representation, can usually succeed in Zimbabwe if their finances and product or services lines are in order. (references) | |
Women | Macedonia | Domestic and other violence against women was a persistent and common problem. (references) |
Worker Rights | Belgium | There also are persistent reports that teenage boys, some as young as 12 or 13 years, were being brought into the country from West Africa and Latin America with false documents by soccer agents for tryouts with local clubs. (references) |
Mauritania | Poverty, persistent drought, and a weak economy provided few economic alternatives for many and left some former slaves vulnerable to exploitation by former masters. (references) | |
United Kingdom | No laws specifically criminalize trafficking in persons, although a range of laws are used to prosecute traffickers; the trafficking of persons was a persistent problem. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Despite all its past achievements, the continued progress of the mutual assistance program requires a persistent discontent with present performance. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But we must be strong, and we must be persistent. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Our commitment to human dignity is challenged by persistent poverty and raging disease. |
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| "Persistent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Persistent" is used about 1,257 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.28% | 1,248 | 6,272 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,257 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "persistent": persistent carrier sense multiple access ♦ persistent command ♦ persistent current ♦ persistent data ♦ Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome ♦ persistent Functional Language ♦ persistent memory ♦ persistent oil ♦ persistent organic pollutants ♦ persistent precipitation ♦ Persistent psychosis ♦ persistent state ♦ Persistent Vegetative State ♦ stabile persistent. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "persistent": non-persistent. | |
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| 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 "persistent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që zgjat, ngulmues (assiduous, insistent, persevering, pertinacious, plodder, urgency, urgent), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, dogged, emphatic, exacting, insistent, lingering, patient, persevering, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming, urgent), i vazhdueshëm (ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual, continued, continuous, endless, frequent, incessant, lingering, niggling, non-stop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, regular, running, steady, unbroken, uninterrupted), i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, firm, Hardy, indissoluble, lasting, lingering, perdurable, permanent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unalterable, unswerving), i përhershëm (chronic, confirmed, constant, eternal, everlasting, fadeless, immortal, immutable, lasting, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, sempiternal, settled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متكرر (chronic, frequent, frequenter, periodic, recurrent, repeated, return), متواصل (ceaseless, constant, continual, continued, continuous, incessant, round the clock, running, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting), مستمر (abiding, constant, continual, enduring, everlasting, incessant, permanent, standing, unending), مصر (determined, insistent, resolute, resolved), مثابر (painstaking, persevering), مداوم, صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), който продължава да съществува, неокапващ, непроменен (unaffected, unchanged, unconverted), непроменлив (constant, even, uniform), настойчив (aggressive, earnest, importunate, importune, insistent, pressing), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 坚持 (insist, Insisted, insistence, insisting, Persevere, Persevered, Persevering, Persist, Persisted, persistence, Persistency, Persisting), 固執 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vytrvalý (assiduous, steadfast, strenuous, sustained, tireless, tough, unremitting), trvalý (abiding, constant, enduring, everlasting, lasting, perennial, permanent, perpetual, retentive), neopadávající, neodbytný (catchy, haunting, insistent, intrusive, pertinacious, pursuant), houževnatý (dogged, resilient, stiff, strenuous, tenacious, tough, wiry), úporný (grim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | persisterende (persisting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | volhardend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | persista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | PBT-kemikaalit (Bio-accumulative and Toxic chemicals, PBT chemicals), hitaasti hajoavat, eläviin kudoksiin kertyvät ja myrkylliset kemikaalit (Bio-accumulative and Toxic chemicals, PBT chemicals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | persistant (persisting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ständig (always, chronic, consistently, constant, constantly, continual, continually, continuing, continuous, continuously, established, forever, full, habitually, incessant, incessantly, invariably, perennially, permanent, permanently, perpetual, perpetually, regular, resident, standing, steadily, steady, sustained), beharrlich (importunate, importunately, insistent, insistently, persevering, persistently, single minded, steadfast, stolid, stolidly, unremitting, unwavering, unwaveringly), persistent (persisting), beständig (consistent, constant, constantly, continual, durable, inextinguishable, invariably, lasting, perennial, permanent, proof, resistant, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, sustained), ausdauernd (Hardy, patient, patiently, perennial, perseverely, persevering, sustained, tenacious, untiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίμονος (intractable, persevering, pertinaceous, tenacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתמיד (abiding, dilligent, enduring, hourly, industrious, lasting, permanent, perpetual, sedulous, studious, unremitting), מתעקש (tenacious), תמידי (constant, continuous, incessant, permanent, unfailing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kitartó (assiduous, constant, dogged, insistent, loyal, persevering, pertinacious, sustained, tough, unwavering), állhatatos (blue, consistent, consistent with, persevering, pertinacious, set, steadfast, steady, tenacious), állandó kereslet (persistent demand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tabah (perseverant, steadfast), gigih (persevering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | persistente (abiding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 粘っこい (sticky, stiff, tenacious), 粘り強い (persevering, tenacious), 執念深い (spiteful, tenacious, vengeful, vindictive), 性懲り (incorrigible), 永続性 (permanence), ねじ伏せる (contents, joke material, material, must, ought to, proof, should, sticky, to have to do, to hold down, to twist one's arm, topping of nigiri sushi), 不断 (constant, constantly, continually, unremitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねばっこい (sticky, stiff, tenacious), ねばりづよい (persevering, tenacious), しゅうねんぶかい (spiteful, tenacious, vengeful, vindictive), しょうこり (incorrigible), ねちねち (sticky), ふだん (always, constant, constantly, continually, habitually, ordinarily, unremitting, usually), えいぞくせい (permanence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 지속 (Persisting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheer- (amaranthine, ceaseless, constant, constantly, continual, continuous, deathless, endless, ever, interminable, lastingly, never ceasing, perennial, permanent, permanently, perpetual, perpetually, persistently, prefix continuous, timeless, undying, unending), shassooagh (abiding, constant, dogged, firm, insistent, invariable, resolute, stable, steadfast), kione-lajeragh (arbitrary, contumacious, headstrong, obdurate, obstinate, strong-willed), kinjagh (ballast, ballast of person, constant, continual, continuous, definite, incessant, invariable, regular, steady, unceasing, unfailing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersistentpay persistente (dogged, evergreen, everlasting, insistent, lasting, obstinate, persevering, pertinacious, stiff necked, tenacious), contínuo (attendant, constant, continual, continue, continuous, endlong, enduring, eternal life, hourly, incest, lasting, never-dying, ongoing, permanent, perpetual, progressive, round, running, runny, sequential, solid, straight, sustained, thru, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting). (various references) persistent (obstinate, persistently, pertinacious, pertinaciously), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), repetat (continually, frequent, iterative, persistently, repeat, repeatedly, twice). (various references) стойкий (doughty, fast, firm, hard bitten, hardbitten, lasting, resistant, staunch, steadfast, stout, stouthearted, stout-hearted, sturdy, true-blue, uncompromising, unyielding), упорный (contumacious, die hard, dogged, hardbitten, indomitable, obstinate, patient, persevering, pertinacious, refractory, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding), неотступный (unrelenting), неотвязный (nagging), постоянный (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, eternal, hard, hourly, immanent, in ordinary, invariable, invariant, perdurable, perm, permanent, perpetual, regular, settled, stationary, uniform, unvarying). (various references) uporan (aggressive, dogged, insistent, last ditch, obdurate, pertinacious, refractory, stubborn, tenacious, unremitting), izdržljiv (durable, hardy, solid, staying), istrajan (assiduous, dogged, persevering, pertinacious, tenacious, unremitting). (various references) persistente (hardy, lingering, long-lived, nagging, niggling), continuo (abiding, chronic, constant, continual, continuous, direct, lasting, nagging, non-stop, permanent, perpetual, rolling, steady, sustained, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted). (various references) envis (be obstinate, contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references) sürekli (abiding, assiduous, chronic, consistent, consistently, constant, continual, continuous, continuum, durable, enduring, everlasting, habitual, hourly, imprescriptible, incessant, invariable, lasting, non-stop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, running, secular, settled, standing, steady, sustained, unabating, unceasing, unremitting), kalıcı (consistent, lasting, lingering, perdurable, perennial, permanent, residual, stable), iz bırakan, inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), devamlı (assiduous, away, chronic, continual, continued, continuous, everlasting, evermore, forever, frequent, hourly, in ordinary, incessant, invariable, invariably, lasting, non-stop, on end, permanent, regular, regularly, settled, steady, sustained, unabating, unbroken, unceasing, unremitting), ısrarlı (clamant, constant, insistent, pressing, steadfast, urgent), ısrar eden (importunate, insistent, insisting, instant). (various references) tutanяerli (persevering), erjel. (various references) стійкий (dyed in the wool, fast, hard bitten, perseverant, persevering, resistant, resolved, rigid, steady, stout hearted, sturdy, vertebrate), упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, obstinate, patient, perseverant, persevering, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent). (various references) sừng, kiên gan (undamped), khư khư, cố chấp (pertaincious, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, tough), bền bỉ khăng khăng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bernice, contentiosa, contentiose, contentiosus, improbus, pertinax, tenaci, tenax. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "persistent": persistently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "persistent": nonpersistent. (additional references) | |
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"Persistent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ersistent, persestent, persistant, persisttant, pertitent, pertsistent, perwsistent, presisent, presistant, presistent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "persistent" (pronounced persi"stunt) |
| 7 | -s i" s t u n t | assistant, consistent, inconsistent, insistent. |
| 6 | -i" s t u n t | distant, existent, nonexistent, resistant. |
| 5 | -s t u n t | constant, contestant, decongestant, extant, instant, protestant. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, adjutant, blatant, combatant, competent, concomitant, consultant, disinfectant, exorbitant, expectant, exultant, hesitant, important, impotent, inadvertent, incompetent, inhabitant, intermittent, irritant, latent, militant, mutant, noncombatant, omnipotent, patent, penitent, pollutant, potent, reluctant, repentant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pinsetters, presentist, prettiness. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: insetters, interests, pettiness, pinsetter, sternites, triteness. | |
-2 letters: erepsins, insetter, interest, pensters, pertness, pestiest, presents, pretests, pretties, respites, ripeness, sentries, serpents, spinster, spitters, sternest, sternite, stinters, tipsters, trientes. | |
-3 letters: entires, entries, erepsin, esprits, estrins, inserts, insteps, nesters, netters, nettier, penises, penster, persist, pertest, pesters, pestier, petites, petters, pettier, present, presets, pretest, priests, pterins, renests. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: guttersnipes, persistently, prettinesses, septentrions, spinnerettes. | |
+3 letters: inspectorates, misinterprets, nonpersistent, peritonitises, predestinates, presentations, presentiments, receptionists, repristinates, stereopticons, streptokinase. | |
+4 letters: antidepressant, letterspacings, pectinesterase, perfectionists, preanesthetics, predestinators, protectiveness, repetitiveness, retrospections, sempiternities, stepparentings, streptokinases, superfetations, superintensity, treponematosis. | |
+5 letters: antidepressants, importunateness, intemperateness, pectinesterases, photosensitizer, precipitantness, precipitateness, predestinations, preservationist, pretentiousness, repetitiousness, representations, representatives, semitransparent, supercontinents, superintendents, transparentizes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 73 69 73 74 65 6E 74 |
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