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Meaning of persistent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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