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- pronunciation:
- puhr
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- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
tenacious in purpose, opinion, or the like; persevering.
If he'd been more pertinacious, I'm sure he would have won over the committee's support.- synonyms:
- firm, persevering, persistent, tenacious
- similar words:
- assiduous, diligent, laborious, sedulous, tireless, unshakable
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| definition 2: |
stubbornly determined in action; persistent.
- synonyms:
- dogged, persistent
- similar words:
- adamant, firm, hardheaded, inflexible, insistent, mulish, resolute, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising
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| related words: |
diligent, hardheaded, laborious, unbending |
| derivations: |
pertinaciously (adv.), pertinaciousness (n.) |
The word pertinacious
contains the following parts:
per-
Latin
prefix
that means through, throughout; very
  Example words:
perceive, perception, perennial, perfect, perforate, perform, perjury, permanent, permission, permit, perpetual, persecute, persist, persistent, perspective, perspire, persuade, persuasion
ten, tin, tain
Latin
root
that means to hold
Example words:
abstain, attain, contain, container, content, continent, continual, continue, continuous, detain, detention, impertinent, lieutenant, maintain, maintenance, obtain, pertain, pertinent, retain, sustain, tennis, tenor
-acious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
More about this word part:
The suffix -acious
forms adjectives from Latinate nouns ending in "-acity," "-acy," or "-ce." Most common adjectives ending in -acious
have a corresponding noun form ending in "-acity."
Example words:
audacious, capacious, fallacious, loquacious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, tenacious, veracious, vivacious, voracious
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