pertinacious

1. 1.

   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”

   “men tenacious of opinion”

   Synonymsdoggeddourpersistenttenaciousunyielding

   Similarstubborn

Questions about pertinacious

What does pertinacious mean?

pertinacious means "stubbornly unyielding".

How many syllables are in pertinacious?

pertinacious has 5 syllables: per-ti-na-ci-ous. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for pertinacious?

Close synonyms include dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding. 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 pertinacious a common word?

pertinacious 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.