importunate
adjective /ɪmˈpɔːtʃənət/
/ɪmˈpɔːrtʃənət/
(formal)- asking for things many times in a way that is annoying
- importunate demands/pleas
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’, based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbours (from portus ‘harbour’); compare with opportune.