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persistent
adjective
1 persistent
Never-ceasing.
synonyms: relentless, unrelenting.
Roget 604a:
persevering,
constant;
steady,
steadfast;
undeviating,
unwavering,
unfaltering,
unswerving,
unflinching,
unsleeping†,
unflagging,
undrooping†;
steady as time;
unrelenting,
unintermitting†,
unremitting;
plodding;
industrious
etc.
682;
strenuous
etc.
686;
pertinacious;
persisting,
persistent.
solid,
sturdy,
staunch,
stanch,
true to oneself;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
unconquerable
etc.
(strong)
159;
indomitable,
game to the last,
indefatigable,
untiring,
unwearied,
never tiring.
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Roget 141:
stable
etc.
150;
persisting
etc.
v.;
permanent;
established;
unchanged
etc.
(change)
etc.
140;
renewed;
intact,
inviolate;
persistent;
monotonous,
uncheckered†;
unfailing.
undestroyed,
unrepealed,
unsuppressed†;
conservative,
qualis ab incepto [Lat.];
prescriptive
etc.
(old)
124;
stationary
etc.
265.
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Roget 110:
durable;
lasting
etc.
v.;
of long duration,
of long-standing;
permanent,
endless,
chronic,
long-standing;
intransient†,
intransitive;
intransmutable†,
persistent;
lifelong,
livelong;
longeval†,
long-lived,
macrobiotic,
diuturnal†,
evergreen,
perennial;
sempervirent†,
sempervirid†;
unrelenting,
unintermitting†,
unremitting;
perpetual
etc.
112.
lingering,
protracted,
prolonged,
spun out
etc.
v..
long-pending,
long-winded;
slow
etc.
275.
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2 persistent
Continually recurring to the mind.
synonym: haunting.
3 persistent
Retained; not shed:
— Persistent leaves remain attached past maturity.
— The persistent gills of fishes.
synonym: lasting.
4 persistent
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