per·sist·ent /pərˈsɪstənt/
1. never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
synset: persistent, relentless, unrelenting
2. continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
3. retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
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"
synset: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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