Persistent - Definition
persistent
adj 1: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn:
persistent, relentless, unrelenting]
2: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the
cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting
beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: haunting, persistent]
3: retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past
maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn:
persistent, lasting] [ant: caducous, shed]
4: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the
critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious
to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn:
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious,
unyielding]