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persistent   (TTS Sound)

The adj persistent has 4 senses

• persistent, relentless, unrelenting -- (never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums")


• haunting, persistent -- (continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy)


• persistent, lasting -- (retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes")


• dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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")