Pertinacious

Definition: Pertinacious

Pertinacious

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pertinacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Pertinacious

Perseverance

Unintermitting, unremitting; plodding; industrious; strenuous; pertinacious; persisting, persistent.

Crosswords: Pertinacious

Albanian

ngulmues (assiduous, insistent, persevering, persistent, plodder, urgency, urgent), kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, cussed, dogged, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, urgent, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), i palëkundur (steadfast, unshakable, unshaken, unyielding), i paepur (adamant, cast iron, dogged, firm, hard bitten, hard boiled, implacable, indefatigable, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, rigid, stiff, tough, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pressing, salt, stringent, urgent), ‏متصلب الراي (ornery, relentless, stiff necked), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded). (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, persistent, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Czech

umínìný (headstrong, hell-bent, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, refractory, self-opinionated, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful), tvrdošíjný (dogged, obstinate, restive, strenuous), neodbytný (catchy, haunting, insistent, intrusive, persistent, pursuant), neústupný (immovable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, obstinate, refractory, stubborn, unyielding). (various references)

Farsi 

کله شق (Bullheaded, Obstinate, Restive, Stubborn), لجوج (Dogged, Dour, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Obstreperous, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), سمج (Stickler, Stubborn), خیره سر (Dour, Intractable, Obstinate, Stubborn), خودسر (Headstrong, Intractable, Opinionated, Stubborn, Wayward, Wilful). (various references)

French

opiniâtre, obstiné (persevering, persistent, perverse), entêté (perverse). (various references)

German

hartnäckig (adamant, besetting, dogged, dour, importunate, importunately, insistent, intractable, inveterate, obdurate, obstinate, obstinately, persistent, pertinaciously, pugnacious, pugnaciously, refractorily, refractory, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, tenaciously, tough, unregenerate, unrelenting, urgent). (various references)

Greek 

ισχυρογνώμων (contumacious, hard-headed, headstrong, hidebound, obstinate, opinionated, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), πείσμων (pertinaceous, refractory, stubborn, wilful, willful), επίμονοσ (importunate, insistent, persevering, persistent, stubborn, tenacious). (various references)

Hebrew 

עקיב (consequential, consistent), עקשן (adamant, bone head, contrary, dogged, headstrong, obdurate, obstinate, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stubborn), דבק במטרה. (various references)

Hungarian

állhatatos (blue, consistent, consistent with, persevering, persistent, set, steadfast, steady, tenacious), rendületlen (imperturbability, imperturbable, stanch, staunch, steadfast, steady, true, unshaken, unwavering), makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, dour, froward, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed). (various references)

Italian

pertinace. (various references)

Pig Latin

ertinaciouspay

Portuguese

pertinaz (obstinate, persevering), persistente (dogged, evergreen, everlasting, insistent, lasting, obstinate, persevering, persistent, stiff necked, tenacious), perseverante (assiduous, persistent, sedulous, unremitting, unshaken, unwearying), relacionar-se com, obstinado (ambivalent, balky, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, non-ductile, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stolid, stubborn, tenacious, unredeemed, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian

persistent (obstinate, persistent, persistently, pertinaciously), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, trenchant, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

упрямый (asinine, balky, baulky, bolshy, contrary, cross-grained, cussed, dogged, dour, froward, hardbitten, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pig-headed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stiff-necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), упорный (contumacious, die hard, dogged, hardbitten, indomitable, obstinate, patient, persevering, persistent, refractory, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uporan (aggressive, dogged, insistent, last ditch, obdurate, persistent, refractory, stubborn, tenacious, unremitting), istrajan (assiduous, dogged, persevering, persistent, tenacious, unremitting). (various references)

Spanish

pertinaz. (various references)

Swedish

orubblig (adamant, firm, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, impregnable, inexorable, inflexible, tenacious, unblinking, uncompromising, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), ihållande (continual, continuous, incessant, insistent), halsstarrig (mulish, self willed, stubborn), envis (be obstinate, contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded), enveten (contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Turkish

sebatlı (constant, perseverant, sedulous, stable, steadfast, sturdy), 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, persistent, 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), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, persevering, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous), ısrarcı (insistent, one way, self-assertive, urgent). (various references)

Ukranian 

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), непоступливий (non-yielding), завзятий (audacious, daring, fervent, mettled, mettlesome, proud, stubborn, unsparing). (various references)

pertinax. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pertinacious": pertinaciously, pertinaciousness, pertinaciousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pertinacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perinacious, pertenacious, pertinaceous, pertinaciously, petinacious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: precautions.

-2 letters: ascription, isentropic, pernicious, precaution, speciation, supertonic.

-3 letters: anoretics, atropines, caponiers, coparents, countries, courantes, courtesan, creations, cretinous, croupiest, eruptions, inceptors, inspector, nectarous, neuritics, neurotics, opacities, operatics, opticians, outcapers, outprices, outrances, patronise, paucities, portances, precisian, precision, procaines, proscenia, psoriatic, rainspout, raucities, reactions, suctorian, supinator, tenacious, topiaries, truancies.

-4 letters: aconites, acuities, ancestor, anoretic, anuretic, aoristic.

+2 letters: pertinaciously, reduplications, republications, ultraprecision.

+3 letters: eutrophications, prepublications, recapitulations, ultraprecisions, unappreciations.

+4 letters: computerizations, neuropsychiatric, pertinaciousness, superromanticism.

+5 letters: australopithecine, neuropsychiatries, neuropsychiatrist, prequalifications, supercivilization, superromanticisms.

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