persist

Other forms of persist

past tense

persisted·

present participle

persisting·

third person

persists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about persist

What does persist mean?

persist means "continue to exist". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in persist?

persist has 2 syllables: per-sist. The stress falls on "sist". In IPA it is /pɚˈsɪst/.

What is another word for persist?

Close synonyms include prevail, die hard, run, endure, persevere. 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 persist a common word?

persist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 persist?

6 words rhyme with persist. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.