persistent
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (4)
- never-ceasing“the relentless beat of the drums”Synonyms: relentlessunrelentingOpposite sporadicSimilar continual
- continually recurring to the mind“haunting memories”“the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty — Claudia Cassidy”Synonyms: hauntingOpposite forgettableSimilar unforgettable
- retained; not shed“persistent leaves remain attached past maturity”“the persistent gills of fishes”Synonyms: lasting
- 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”Synonyms: doggeddourpertinacioustenaciousunyieldingOpposite docileSimilar stubborn, obstinate
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Adjective refusing to give up
- Spanish
- persistente
- French
- tenace
- German
- ausdauernd
- Italian
- tenace
- Portuguese
- persistente
- Russian
- насто́йчивый nastójčivyj
- Japanese
- 粘り強い nebarizuyoi
- Polish
- wytrwały
- Greek
- επίμονος epímonos
- Hungarian
- kitartó
9 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- persistente
- Catalan
- persistent
- Czech
- vytrvalý
- Esperanto
- persista
- Finnish
- sitkeä
- Hebrew
- עקשן akshán
- Romanian
- persistent
- Scottish Gaelic
- leanmhainneach
- Welsh
- dyfal
Adjective insistently repetitive
- Spanish
- persistente
- French
- persistant
- German
- beharrlich
- Italian
- insistente
- Portuguese
- persistente
- Russian
- насто́йчивый nastójčivyj
- Japanese
- しつこい shitsukoi
- Dutch
- hardnekkig
- Polish
- uporczywy
- Swedish
- ihållande
5 more languages
- Greek
- επίμονος epímonos
- Vietnamese
- dai
- Hungarian
- kitartó
- Finnish
- sinnikäs
- Scottish Gaelic
- leanmhainneach
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of persistere. See Persist.
1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
2. Biology Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; — opposed to deciduous, and caducous.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<programming> A property of a programming language where created objects and variables continue to exist and retain their values between runs of the program.
2.<hardware> The length of time a phosphor dot on the screen of a cathode ray tube will remain illuminated after it has been energised by the electron beam. Long-persistence phosphors reduce flicker, but generate ghost-like images that linger on screen for a fraction of a second.
(1994-11-09)