persistent

persistent is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. never-ceasing

   "the relentless beat of the drums"

   Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting

4. adjective. continually recurring to the mind- Claudia Cassidy

   "haunting memories"

   "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"

   Synonyms: haunting

5. adjective. retained; not shed

   "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"

   "the persistent gills of fishes"

   Synonyms: lasting

6. adjective. stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot

   "dogged persistence"

   "dour determination"

   Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

Synonyms

relentless, unrelenting, haunting, lasting, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in persistent:

pinsetters, presentist, prettiness

Common word forms

persistently

Words from these letters

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