pertinacious
/pur-tih-NAY-shus/adjectiveholding stubbornly to an opinion or course of action
“A pertinacious lobbyist can outlast any news cycle.”
- Synonyms
- stubborn, obstinate, dogged
- Antonyms
- tractable, yielding
- Root
- ten- (hold)
- Memory hook
- per (thoroughly) + ten (hold): holding through everything.
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