persistent meaning and definition

PERSISTENT adjective

Definition of persistent (adjective)

1. never-ceasing
   • "the relentless beat of the drums"
   • synonyms: relentless, unrelenting
2. continually recurring to the mind
   • "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
   • synonyms: haunting
3. retained; not shed
   • "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
   • synonyms: lasting
   • antonym: caducous
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"
   • synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding