importunate

  • 21importunate — adj 1. pressing, urgent, instant, crying, exigent, demanding, exacting; claiming, clamorous, insistent, dunning, entreating, solicitous, suppliant; supplicatory, supplicant, imploratory, imprecatory, precatory, invocatory, on bended knee. 2.… …

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  • 22importunate — im·por·tu·nate …

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  • 23importunate — UK [ɪmˈpɔː(r)tjʊnət] / US [ɪmˈpɔrtʃənət] adjective very formal continuing to ask for something in a determined and annoying way …

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  • 24importunate — im•por•tu•nate [[t]ɪmˈpɔr tʃə nɪt[/t]] adj. 1) overly urgent or persistent in solicitation 2) troublesome • Etymology: 1520–30 im•por′tu•nate•ly, adv …

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  • 25importunate — /ɪmˈpɔtʃənət/ (say im pawchuhnuht) adjective 1. urgent or persistent in solicitation. 2. pertinacious, as solicitations or demands. 3. troublesome. {importun(e) + ate1} –importunately, adverb –importunateness, noun …

  • 26importunate —   Kauloloa, me o, noi mau …

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  • 27importunate — adj. 1 making persistent or pressing requests. 2 (of affairs) urgent. Derivatives: importunately adv. importunity n. Etymology: L importunus inconvenient (as IN (1), portunus f. portus harbour) …

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  • 28permutation — importunate …

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  • 29Importunately — Importunate Im*por tu*nate ([i^]m*p[^o]r t[ u]*n[asl]t), a. [See {Importune}.] 1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an importunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30Importunateness — Importunate Im*por tu*nate ([i^]m*p[^o]r t[ u]*n[asl]t), a. [See {Importune}.] 1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an importunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English