Associations to the word «Pertinacious»

Wiktionary

PERTINACIOUS, adjective. Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
PERTINACIOUS, adjective. Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

Dictionary definition

PERTINACIOUS, adjective. 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"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion".

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras