Word Meanings - PERTINACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar. 2. Resolute; persevering; constant; steady. Diligence is a steady, constant,

Additional info about word: PERTINACIOUS

1. Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar. 2. Resolute; persevering; constant; steady. Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study. South. Syn. -- Obstinate; stubborn; inflexible; unyielding; resolute; determined; firm; constant; steady. -- Per`ti*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Per`ti*na"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERTINACIOUS)

• Obstinate
• Headstrong
• stubborn
• refractory
• self-willed
• pertinacious
• obdurate
• perverse
• intractable
• Resolute
• Determined
• decided
• steadfast
• fixed
• steady
• constant
• persevering
• stout
• energetic
• dogged
• stout-hearted
• inflexible
• undaunted
• undeviating
• unflinching
• Stiff
• Unbending
• rigid
• unyielding
• unpliant
• stroux
• obstinate
• constrained
• affected
• starched
• formal
• ceremonious
• difficult
• Tenacious
• Retentive
• adhesive
• jealous
• chary

Related words: (words related to PERTINACIOUS)

• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• PERSEVER
  To persevere.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• UNDAUNTABLE
  Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.