persistent

[Per*sist·ent]

If something is persistent, it just won't stop. If you're persistent in your suggestions for a trip to Mexico, maybe your parents will eventually give in and take you there.

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Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Adjective S.
never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"

Adjective S.
continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy

Adjective
retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"


a.
Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

a.
Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.


Persistent

Per*sist"ent , a. [L. persistens, -entis, p.pr. of persistere. See Persist.] 1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose. 2. (Biol.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

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Usage Examples

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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Other Usage Examples

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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