persevering

1. 1.

   quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

   “a diligent (or patient) worker”

   “with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business”

   Synonymsdiligent

   Similarpatient

Questions about persevering

What does persevering mean?

persevering means "quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness".

How many syllables are in persevering?

persevering has 4 syllables: per-se-ver-ing. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /pɚsəˈvɪɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for persevering?

Close synonyms include diligent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is persevering a common word?

persevering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with persevering?

1 word rhymes with persevering. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.