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Definition of importunate in English: importunateadjective ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnətɪmˈpɔrtʃənət Persistent, especially to the point of annoyance. Example sentencesExamples - Plato also compares the desires to wild beasts for the more they are satisfied, the more importunate they grow, driving the man to ever more strenuous attempts to achieve an ever-diminishing satisfaction.
- In his diary he describes how he ‘saw various forms of squalor, disease, and deformity-all manner of importunate beggary.’
- The strange gentleman is, we learn, one of Felice Charmond's more importunate lovers (and eventually her assassin).
- The staff are solicitous rather than importunate.
- They compounded verbal injury by laying importunate hands on women of our group.
- Locals often advise visitors to show their empty palms to monkeys if they are in the preserve and want to avoid their importunate extortion of food.
- The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him-what he was.
- What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
- He is ready and willing to yield to our importunate cries of faith.
- Tell me everything,’ she requested in an importunate manner.
- Wading further through the crowd, we decline a chorus of importunate hands, each holding out postcards that detail the site's glories.
- It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
- And although the gulling of Benedick is wittily done - with an importunate boy messenger demanding a tip from the supposedly hidden protagonist - that of Beatrice lapses into farce as she is drenched by a garden hose.
- He goes off to play a chieftain in a school production of South Pacific and returns to his office, in costume, to talk to an importunate but delightful female student with whom he chats, dances, flirts, and drums.
- So not only did the importunate young man squeeze a few extra minutes out of the eminent philosopher, he also caught, and recorded him, laughing at his guest's foolishness.
- And I'll hope you'll forgive this importunate but timely plea.
- As Oscar Wilde observed, the personal memoir, even if written for friends and family alone or to satisfy an importunate publisher, is always delightfully self-obsessed.
- Mediæval kings may have been surrounded by importunate projectors and alchemists, but they mostly kept them at arm's length.
- The larger goal is to encourage a strategy for thinking broadly about contentious issues so that the church maintains its intellectual and theological integrity and is not simply captivated by insistent or importunate voices.
- I aroused my companions daily at six o'clock in the morning, they murmured gently at my importunate zeal; but they arose nevertheless.
Synonyms persistent, insistent, tenacious, persevering, dogged, unremitting, unrelenting, tireless, indefatigable stubborn, intransigent, obstinate, obdurate pressing, urgent, demanding, entreating, nagging, exacting, clamorous, clamant aggressive, high-pressure informal pushy formal exigent, pertinacious, suppliant
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin importunus 'inconvenient, unseasonable', based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbours (from portus 'harbour'); compare with opportune. Definition of importunate in US English: importunateadjectiveimˈpôrCHənətɪmˈpɔrtʃənət Persistent, especially to the point of annoyance or intrusion. Example sentencesExamples - He goes off to play a chieftain in a school production of South Pacific and returns to his office, in costume, to talk to an importunate but delightful female student with whom he chats, dances, flirts, and drums.
- He is ready and willing to yield to our importunate cries of faith.
- They compounded verbal injury by laying importunate hands on women of our group.
- And although the gulling of Benedick is wittily done - with an importunate boy messenger demanding a tip from the supposedly hidden protagonist - that of Beatrice lapses into farce as she is drenched by a garden hose.
- It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
- The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him-what he was.
- Wading further through the crowd, we decline a chorus of importunate hands, each holding out postcards that detail the site's glories.
- As Oscar Wilde observed, the personal memoir, even if written for friends and family alone or to satisfy an importunate publisher, is always delightfully self-obsessed.
- And I'll hope you'll forgive this importunate but timely plea.
- Locals often advise visitors to show their empty palms to monkeys if they are in the preserve and want to avoid their importunate extortion of food.
- So not only did the importunate young man squeeze a few extra minutes out of the eminent philosopher, he also caught, and recorded him, laughing at his guest's foolishness.
- Plato also compares the desires to wild beasts for the more they are satisfied, the more importunate they grow, driving the man to ever more strenuous attempts to achieve an ever-diminishing satisfaction.
- I aroused my companions daily at six o'clock in the morning, they murmured gently at my importunate zeal; but they arose nevertheless.
- Mediæval kings may have been surrounded by importunate projectors and alchemists, but they mostly kept them at arm's length.
- In his diary he describes how he ‘saw various forms of squalor, disease, and deformity-all manner of importunate beggary.’
- The staff are solicitous rather than importunate.
- The larger goal is to encourage a strategy for thinking broadly about contentious issues so that the church maintains its intellectual and theological integrity and is not simply captivated by insistent or importunate voices.
- Tell me everything,’ she requested in an importunate manner.
- What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
- The strange gentleman is, we learn, one of Felice Charmond's more importunate lovers (and eventually her assassin).
Synonyms persistent, insistent, tenacious, persevering, dogged, unremitting, unrelenting, tireless, indefatigable
Origin Early 16th century: from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’, based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbors (from portus ‘harbor’); compare with opportune. |