pertinaciously

1. 1.

   in a dogged and pertinacious manner

   “he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution”

Questions about pertinaciously

What does pertinaciously mean?

pertinaciously means "in a dogged and pertinacious manner".

How many syllables are in pertinaciously?

pertinaciously has 6 syllables: per-ti-na-ci-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ci".

Is pertinaciously a common word?

pertinaciously 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.