Importunate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating: an importunate job seeker.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
  • adj. Of a person: given to importunate demands, selfishly or thoughtlessly demanding.
  • v. To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing.
  • adj. Hard to be borne; unendurable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Troublesomely solicitous or pressing; vexatiously persistent; pertinacious.
  • Troublesome; vexatious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. expressing earnest entreaty
  • Equivalent
    pleading    imploring    beseeching   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    urgent    teasing    unendurable    persistent   
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