Stubborn, obstinate; steadfast, resolute. Also as n.

= importunate, adj. 1.

Pressing, urgent, importunate. Said of persons and their actions.

Inopportune, untimely, unseasonable; = importune, adj. 3. Obsolete.

Of persons: pressingly solicitous; importunate, insistent. Also with prepositions, as for, in, on, †unto.

Importunate, persistent; urgent, pressing. Obsolete.

That importunes (in various senses of importune, v.).

figurative. That urgently claims attention, ‘crying’; importunate. (Often including actual noise.)

Suppliant, supplicating; importunate. Obsolete.

That asks or begs earnestly; urgent or importunate in asking or beseeching.

figurative. ‘Crying’, urgent. Chiefly in Scottish writers.