| 单词 | pertinacious |
| 释义 | pertinacious (once / 5826 pages) adj If you won’t take no for an answer, you’re pertinacious. The same holds true if you stubbornly push on a door despite a sign that says “pull.” Pertinacious means unyielding or perversely persistent. We get pertinacious from the Latin pertinx, which combines per- "thoroughly" with tenx "tenacious." You can impress your friends by dropping pertinacious into conversation when referring to anyone who is bullheaded and obstinately stuck in their ways and opinions. If a Girl Scout is a pertinacious salesperson you might buy fifty boxes of Thin Mints when you only wanted one. WORD FAMILYpertinacious: pertinaciously+/pertinacity: pertinacious USAGE EXAMPLESSecond, we are an ingenious, resourceful and pertinacious species. US News(Nov 16, 2015) The museum’s functionaries—from floor-polishing janitors to pertinacious scholars and fantastically skilled restorers—emerge as the film’s heroes. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2014) It cost Philip fifty liras and nearly all the Italian he knew to get rid of the pertinacious and ingenious fellow. MacKenzie, Compton, The Early Life and Adventures of Sy...(2012) adj stubbornly unyielding the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics Syn dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield |
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