英语词汇“pertinacious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pertinacious

/ˌpəːtɪˈneɪʃəs

adjective formal

Holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action: he worked with a pertinacious resistance to interruptions...

Well, I shall now offer a balanced view based on the facts before me: I find your attempts quite perspicacious and pertinacious, and wish you well accordingly.
His enquiries were pertinacious.
He knew she was only so pertinacious out of her love for him.

Synonyms

determined, tenacious, persistent, persevering, assiduous, purposeful, resolute, dogged, indefatigable, insistent, single-minded, unrelenting, relentless, implacable, uncompromising, unyielding, tireless, unshakeable, importunate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, obstinate, obdurate, strong-willed, headstrong, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, pig-headed, bull-headed, stiff-necked, with one's toes/feet dug in, wilful, refractory, contrary, perverse

British informal bloody-minded

rare indurate

Derivatives

pertinaciously

/ˌpəːtɪˈneɪʃəsli

/ adverb ...

I remember that for years I pertinaciously read comic strips, unable to see what Americans saw in them.
The Spanish Scholastics remain profoundly admired by Catholics as the great intellects they were - unthinkable if they had pertinaciously taught perverse error.

pertinaciousness

/ˌpəːtɪˈneɪʃəsnəs

/ noun

pertinacity

/ˌpəːtɪˈnasɪti

/ noun ...

In both instances, it's a good advertisement for pertinacity.
This was returned to Buckingham Palace in 1947, largely through the pertinacity of Queen Mary.
If, in the face of these facts, somebody still insists that the boundaries of the Sikh religion are blurred, it is sheer pertinacity.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin pertinax, pertinac- 'holding fast' + -ous.