Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
never-ceasing
"the relentless beat of the drums"
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- 4adjective
continually recurring to the mind- Claudia Cassidy
"haunting memories"
"the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"
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- 5adjective
retained; not shed
"persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"
"the persistent gills of fishes"
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- 6adjective
stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot
"dogged persistence"
"dour determination"
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