Persistent

Adjective

 * 1) Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
 * She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
 * 1) Insistently repetitive.
 * There was a persistent knocking on the door.
 * 1) Indefinitely continuous.
 * There have been persistent rumours for years.
 * 1)  Lasting past maturity without falling off.
 * Pine cones have persistent scales.
 * The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
 * 1)  About some data or data structures: existing after the execution of the program. Remaining in existence past the lifetime of the program that creates it.
 * Once written to a disk file the data becomes persistent and it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
 * This way transient value becomes persistent.
 * 1)  Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
 * 2)  non-transient.
 * 1)  non-transient.

Related terms

 * persist
 * persistence
 * persistently

Adverbs for Persistent
vexatiously; disagreeably; inescapably; unpleasantly; obnoxiously; admirably; remarkably; uncommonly; highly; tiresomely; ardently; passionately; amazingly; incredibly; unreasonably; doggedly; determinedly; obstinately; stubbornly; maddeningly; insufferably; terribly.

Thesaurus
abiding, accordant, adherent, adhesive, age-long, aged, alike, ancient, antique, archaic, assiduous, automatic, balanced, beaten, booming, bound, bound and determined, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, changeless, chronic, clamant, clamorous, clingy, committed, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, correspondent, crying, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, demanding, determined, devoted, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, draining, durable, earnest, echoic, echoing, enduring, equable, equal, even, evergreen, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, faithful, fast, firm, fixed, flat, frequent, frozen, gluey, glutinous, grasping, growling, gummy, habitual, hackneyed, hardy, haunting, homogeneous, immobile, immutable, importunate, inalterable, incessant, indefatigable, indelible, indomitable, industrious, inflexible, insistent, instant, intact, interminable, intransient, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, lasting, level, lingering, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loud, loyal, macrobiotic, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, nagging, never-tiring, obdurate, obsessive, obstinate, of a piece, of long duration, of long standing, ordered, orderly, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, pressing, purposeful, quiescent, rapt, reboant, rebounding, recurrent, recurring, reechoing, regular, relentless, remaining, repercussive, repetitive, resolute, resolved, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rigid, robotlike, routine, rumbling, sedulous, self-adhesive, sempervirent, serious, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sounding, stable, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, stickable, sticking, sticky, stubborn, sustained, systematic, tacky, taxing, tenacious, thundering, tireless, torpid, tough, trite, unabating, unaltered, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undamped, undaunted, undestroyed, undeveloped, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, undying, unending, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgettable, uniform, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unruffled, unshakable, unshifting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, urgent, utterly attentive, viscid, vital, weariless, well-trodden, well-worn, wholehearted

Translations

 * Croatian: uporan
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ausdauernd
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: עקשן (akshán)
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 頑固な, 固執した, 不屈の
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: uporczywy, bezustanny, ciągły
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מתמיד (matmíd)
 * Japanese: しつこい, 執拗な


 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: bezustanny, uporczywy
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 長引く, 持続性の, いつまでも続く
 * Polish: ciągły, nieustanny


 * Polish:


 * Hebrew: נשנה

Anagrams

 * pinsetters, presentist, prettiness