What is another word for persistent?
927 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pəsˈɪstənt], [ pəsˈɪstənt], [ p_ə_s_ˈɪ_s_t_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for persistent:- abiding (adjective)
- adhesive (adjective)
- around-the-clock (adjective)
- bound and determined (adjective)
- chronic (adjective)
- clinging (adjective)
- consistent (adjective)
- constant (adjective)
- continual (adjective)
- continued (adjective)
- continuous (adjective)
- diligent (adjective)
- durable (adjective)
- firm (adjective)
- frequent (adjective)
- game (adjective)
- habitual (adjective)
- haunting (adjective)
- hell-bent (adjective)
- importunate (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- incorruptible (adjective)
- indefatigable (adjective)
- industrious (adjective)
- insistent (adjective)
- inveterate (adjective)
- lifelong (adjective)
- mulish (adjective)
- never-ending (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- patient (adjective)
- perennial (adjective)
- permanent (adjective)
- perpetual (adjective)
- persevering (adjective)
- persistent (adjective)
- purposeful (adjective)
- relentless (adjective)
- resolute (adjective)
- sequential (adjective)
- single-minded (adjective)
- stable (adjective)
- steady (adjective)
- steady-going (adjective)
- strenuous (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- tenacious (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- unceasing (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- undying (adjective)
- unfailing (adjective)
- unmitigated (adjective)
- unrelenting (adjective)
- unremitting (adjective)
- untiring (adjective)
- haunting (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Persistent:
adj.
•abiding (adjective) •adhesive (adjective) •around-the-clock (adjective) •bound and determined (adjective) •chronic (adjective)- long-lived,
- inborn,
- habitual,
- ingrained,
- deep-seated,
- Recurring,
- incurable,
- settled,
- usual,
- inbred,
- prolonged,
- deep-rooted,
- sustained,
- confirmed,
- ceaseless,
- rooted,
- unyielding,
- recurrent,
- routine,
- ineradicable.
- invariable,
- rational,
- homogeneous,
- same,
- uniform,
- unchanging,
- even,
- logical,
- expected,
- true,
- dependable,
- unvarying,
- of a piece.
- frequent,
- Staying,
- regular,
- unwaning,
- running,
- dateless,
- connected,
- unbroken,
- repetitive,
- consecutive.
- monolithic,
- straight,
- monotonous,
- level,
- endless,
- seamless,
- flat,
- indefatigable,
- coherent,
- gapless,
- steady,
- unchangeable,
- incessant,
- robot-like,
- undying,
- featureless,
- repeated,
- cyclical,
- un-intermittent.
- eager,
- attentive,
- industrious,
- Operose,
- studious,
- active,
- Plugging,
- painstaking,
- earnest,
- occupied,
- busy,
- careful,
- conscientious,
- laborious,
- eager beaver.
- stable,
- long-continued,
- resistant,
- tough,
- sound,
- Diuturnal,
- stouter,
- reliable,
- strong,
- perduring,
- substantial,
- impervious.
- inflexible,
- adamant,
- going,
- bent,
- exact,
- sure,
- unshaken,
- prevailing,
- intent,
- stated,
- stand pat,
- specific,
- unwavering,
- determined,
- set,
- strict,
- unflinching,
- established,
- explicit,
- hang tough,
- unbending,
- Stipulated,
- staunch,
- unqualified,
- resolved.
- stop at nothing,
- un faltering,
- nose grindstone,
- un wearied,
- un-wearied,
- un-faltering,
- more unwearying,
- stop nothing,
- most unwearying,
- un wearying,
- in exhaustible,
- un-wearying,
- in-exhaustible.
- hardcore,
- hard core.
- purposive,
- lifelong,
- unceasing,
- die hard,
- uncomplaining,
- round-the-clock,
- set in one's ways,
- perpetual,
- seasonal,
- game,
- timeless,
- resolute,
- constant,
- true to type,
- untiring,
- livelong,
- oft-repeated,
- unfailing,
- mule,
- clear cut,
- insistent,
- patient,
- dead set on,
- tenacious,
- continual,
- Agglutinant,
- aeonian,
- easy going,
- sequential,
- never-ending,
- non-stop,
- be out for blood,
- Perseverant,
- unalleviated,
- consistent,
- day and night,
- for life,
- relentless,
- steady-going,
- lingering,
- undeviating,
- easy-going,
- permanent,
- Osculant,
- unmixed,
- telelogical,
- durable,
- chronic,
- longstanding,
- Incompliant,
- bound and determined,
- firm,
- day-and-night,
- unbendable,
- unfading,
- abiding,
- on the go,
- head-strong,
- straight out,
- stiff-necked,
- Termless,
- ever-present,
- round the clock,
- philosophic,
- unwearying,
- unrelenting,
- unabated,
- inveterate,
- purposeful,
- grinder,
- unfluctuating,
- incorruptible,
- nose to grindstone,
- psyched up on,
- protracted,
- unended,
- brassbound,
- out and out,
- diligent,
- never-failing,
- unmitigated,
- around-the-clock,
- uncompliant,
- willful,
- perennial,
- stoical,
- ball of fire,
- unremitting,
- unabating,
- in full swing,
- yearlong,
- mild-tempered.
- more mild tempered,
- more easy-going,
- selfpossessed,
- un complaining,
- longsuffering,
- mild tempered,
- most easy-going,
- re-signed,
- most mildtempered,
- more forgiving,
- un ruffled,
- most mild-tempered,
- un-complaining,
- under standing,
- more easy going,
- eventempered,
- more uncomplaining,
- under-standing,
- most mild tempered,
- sub missive,
- even tempered,
- long suffering,
- mildtempered,
- more mild-tempered,
- more mildtempered,
- most easy going,
- re signed,
- most uncomplaining,
- un-ruffled.
- in-tenser,
- playing hard ball,
- in tenser,
- de liberate,
- most purposive,
- most telelogical,
- de-liberate,
- in-tensest,
- in tense,
- more telelogical,
- more purposive,
- in-tense,
- tele logical,
- tele-logical.
- most unstoppable,
- un-relieved,
- un abated,
- un-stoppable,
- un stoppable,
- most unabated,
- more unabated,
- un-abated,
- un relieved,
- more unstoppable.
- fearless,
- bullheaded,
- zealous,
- headstrong,
- bold,
- decisive,
- plucky,
- uncompromising,
- deliberate,
- implacable,
- ruthless,
- serious,
- decided,
- intent upon,
- courageous,
- iron-willed,
- spunky,
- thorough,
- hearty,
- willing,
- stern,
- dauntless,
- unshakeable,
- faithful,
- committed,
- loyal,
- inexorable,
- dedicated,
- valiant,
- devoted,
- strong-willed,
- steely.
- more unfluctuating,
- stabile,
- most stabile,
- more stabile,
- un fluctuating,
- un-fluctuating,
- most unfluctuating.
- red blooded,
- more red-blooded,
- most red blooded,
- most red-blooded,
- red-blooded,
- most redblooded,
- redblooded,
- more red blooded,
- more redblooded.
- most stiff necked,
- set ways,
- un-reasonable,
- set one's ways,
- more cussed,
- most stiff-necked,
- more stiff-necked,
- most cussed,
- set in ones ways,
- more stiff necked,
- set one ways,
- in-exorable,
- in-subordinate,
- set in one ways,
- stiff necked,
- set in ways,
- in subordinate,
- set ones ways,
- stiffnecked,
- un reasonable,
- most stiffnecked,
- more stiffnecked.
- most day-and-night,
- un-ceasing,
- most day and night,
- un ceasing,
- more day and night,
- more day-and-night.
- un-diminished,
- more unended,
- most unended,
- un diminished,
- undiminished,
- un ended,
- un-ended,
- more undiminished,
- most undiminished.
- out-right,
- un-adulterated,
- un alleviated,
- more unalleviated,
- un mixed,
- out right,
- un-alleviated,
- clearcut,
- un-diluted,
- most unalleviated,
- un diluted,
- out-righter,
- more unmixed,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- un-mitigated,
- un-abridged,
- most unmixed,
- un abridged,
- un adulterated,
- straightout,
- un mitigated,
- un-mixed.
n.
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- motivated,
- competitive,
- sedulous.
Other synonyms:
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- lengthy,
- ambitious,
- heroic,
- aspiring,
- eternal,
- unstoppable,
- Overlong,
- single-minded,
- overambitious,
- unbowed,
- tough-minded,
- strenuous,
- around the clock,
- drawn-out,
- stoutly,
- unrelieved,
- vaulting,
- driven,
- hell-bent,
- long-standing,
- unswerving,
- long-drawn-out,
- undeterred,
- would-be,
- stout.
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- hot.
- inflexibility,
- undiscouraged,
- saturnine,
- decision,
- adherent,
- hard-wearing,
- certain,
- robotlike,
- persist,
- unalterable,
- crowded,
- equable,
- Unshifting,
- persistently,
- forward,
- remain,
- enthusiastic,
- observe,
- mulish,
- normal,
- assiduous,
- refractory,
- intuitive,
- connect,
- grim,
- intentional,
- frozen,
- unruffled,
- crying,
- retain,
- indestructible,
- redoubtable,
- hard-working,
- preserve,
- redundant,
- tried and true,
- intransitive,
- long-wearing,
- exacting,
- immobile,
- immanent,
- irreversible,
- concentrated,
- intransigent,
- trusty,
- froward,
- glutinous,
- wholehearted,
- doughty,
- macrobiotic,
- normally,
- sturdy,
- thundering,
- archaic,
- Unrelaxing,
- torpid,
- amplify,
- recalcitrant,
- adherence,
- expand,
- growling,
- persistency,
- adhere,
- uphold,
- rumbling,
- renewed,
- hold on,
- preoccupied,
- unchecked,
- irrepressible,
- steadfastly,
- reiterative,
- gutsy,
- unchanged,
- ancient,
- quiescent,
- keen,
- follow,
- taxing,
- emphatic,
- adhesive,
- unceasingly,
- habitually,
- rapt,
- hold out,
- full,
- reechoing,
- unmoving,
- unbeatable,
- resist,
- incessantly,
- stick with,
- rigid,
- Intransmutable,
- persisting,
- indelible,
- unconquerable,
- grasping,
- stalwart,
- beaten,
- ordered,
- moody,
- trite,
- never-tiring,
- planned,
- wilful,
- forbidding,
- Intransient,
- recollective,
- sticker,
- noncompliance,
- unaltered,
- Hustling,
- exhaustive,
- standing,
- echoing,
- antique,
- immortal,
- change,
- unhesitating,
- intrusive,
- continuously,
- affirmed,
- heady,
- intractable,
- unwearied,
- pertinacity,
- assert,
- Unintermitting,
- heavy-duty,
- eternally,
- plodding,
- Clingy,
- perpetually,
- interfering,
- long-lasting,
- keeping,
- usually,
- meticulous,
- contrary,
- customarily,
- exigent,
- clamant,
- eonian,
- retaining,
- persistence,
- retentive,
- lively,
- undestroyed,
- hold,
- mechanical,
- ceaselessly,
- persevere,
- invincible,
- smooth,
- Undamped,
- lurking,
- ordinarily,
- glum,
- avid,
- perseveration,
- firmness,
- consonant,
- punctilious,
- spirited,
- worrying,
- common,
- scrupulous,
- nagging,
- bull-headed,
- keep to,
- draining,
- positive,
- gluey,
- continuation,
- confidence,
- morose,
- primitive,
- hardworking,
- uncooperative,
- stability,
- demanding,
- officious,
- secure,
- Besetting,
- persist in,
- gut,
- reverberant,
- definite,
- perseverance,
- of long standing,
- unafraid,
- Sempervirent,
- Weariless,
- of long duration,
- long,
- numerous,
- ordinary,
- stay put,
- constancy,
- energetic,
- self-willed,
- evergreen,
- perverse,
- periodic,
- sticky,
- detailed,
- inalterable,
- hackneyed,
- orderly,
- in for long haul,
- unremittingly,
- intruding,
- countless,
- exorbitant,
- vital,
- Maintaining,
- resolution,
- sneaking,
- Reboant,
- echoic,
- steadfastness,
- beyond,
- endlessly,
- minutely,
- measured,
- dynamic,
- broaden,
- extend,
- maintenance,
- abide,
- slogging,
- intrepid,
- stationary,
- pigheaded,
- self-adhesive,
- booming,
- continually,
- returning,
- staying with,
- unblinking,
- remaining,
- endurance,
- tenacity,
- stanch,
- unite,
- sleepless,
- sustain,
- assurance,
- rebounding,
- sounding,
- dour,
- Longevous,
- insistence,
- undifferentiated,
- reverberating,
- intended,
- mettlesome,
- cling,
- aged,
- dictatorial,
- contumacious,
- undiversified,
- intense,
- sempiternal,
- rebellious,
- determination,
- diehard,
- reappearing,
- sullen,
- glowering,
- continuance,
- well-worn,
- accordant,
- unforgiving,
- long-term,
- dark,
- unvaried,
- iterative,
- firmly,
- extortionate,
- insist on,
- hardened,
- meddlesome,
- disobedience,
- Familiar,
- sticking,
- bloody-minded,
- unforgettable,
- worrisome,
- customary,
- unbreakable,
- viscid,
- adhesion,
- like bad penny,
- assertive,
- Methodic,
- automatic,
- tenacious of,
- unsleeping,
- ardent,
- stick to,
- correspondent,
- bulldog,
- obstinacy,
- endure,
- Repercussive,
- clamorous,
- unappeasable,
- constantly,
- enlarge,
- brutal,
- insist,
- sincere,
- inviolate,
- regularly,
- generally,
- bulldoggy,
- systematic,
- Reverberatory,
- Undrooping,
- static,
- methodical,
- niggling,
- distressing,
- bound,
- innumerable,
- full of energy,
- Chronical,
- vigorous,
- focused,
- Uncheckered,
- age-long,
- obtrusive,
- instant,
- pressing,
- tacky,
- unshakable,
- continuity,
- meddling,
- wear-resistant,
- durability,
- intact,
- compelling,
- wayward,
- consistency,
- reoccurring,
- unhesitant,
- equal,
- steadily,
- well-trodden,
- Longeval,
- balanced,
- alike,
- detain,
- encourage,
- pertinacious,
- undeveloped,
- sour,
- valorous,
- loud,
- stereotyped,
- perseveringly,
- gummy,
- everyday,
- humdrum.
Paraphrases for Persistent:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
tenacious, persevering, insistent, stubborn, relentless, unremitting, obstinate, continuous, unrelenting.
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Proper noun, singular
continuous.
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Noun, singular or mass
continuous, unrelenting.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
pervasive, perseverance, prolonged, long-lasting, intransigent, steadfast, Recurring, nagging, diligent, Remanent, perpetual, indefatigable, dogged, entrenched, vigorous, urgent, uninterrupted, repetitive, recidivist, prevailing, unwavering, incurable, tough, die-hard, unresolved, staunch, endless, resolute, outstanding, endemic, diehard, long-running, unabated, eternal, residual, pressing, never-ending, ingrained, earnest, chronically, intensive, resistant, unfailing, inherent.
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Proper noun, singular
agreements, arrangements, continua, registers, emissions, keeps, persist, POPS.
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Noun, singular or mass
pattern.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
persist.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
incessant, ever-present, lingering, tireless, long-standing, perennial, intractable, strenuous, repeated, longstanding, resilient, persistence, frequent, long-term, ceaseless, untiring, assiduous, lasting.
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Proper noun, singular
persistence, lasting.
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Noun, singular or mass
persistence.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Persistent:
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adj.
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chronic
eradicable, occasional, intermittent, curable, temporary.
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consistent
inconsistent, erratic, inconstant, incongruous, varying, disagreeing, irregular.
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constant
stopping, Terminating, interrupted, terminable, concluding, ending.
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continual
checked, infrequent, halting, broken, Ceasing.
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diligent
indifferent, lethargic, languid, inactive, negligent.
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durable
weak, unsturdy, undependable, poorly made, fragile, impermanent.
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eternal
changeable, brief, changing.
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firm
indefinite, alterable, irresolute.
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persistent
Relenting, lazy, Surrendering.
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Other antonyms:
gentle, tractable, faithless, faltering, yielding, docile, sporadic, perfidious, complaisant, forgettable, hesitating, pliant, disloyal, submissive, pliable, hesitant, amenable, vacillating, traitorous, false, treacherous, obedient, undecided, teachable, dutiful, wavering, compliant.
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chronic