 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
persistent
adjective
1: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn: {relentless},
{unrelenting}]
2: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the
cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting
beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: {haunting}]
3: retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past
maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn: {lasting}]
[ant: {caducous}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Persistent \Per*sist"ent\, adjective [L. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of
persistere. See {Persist}.]
1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious
of position or purpose.
2. (Biol.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same
kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as,
persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed
to {deciduous}, and {caducous}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
245 Moby Thesaurus words for "persistent":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
persistent
{persistence}
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