Persistent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Persistent \Per*sist"ent\, a. [L. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of
     persistere. See {Persist}.]
     1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious
        of position or purpose.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     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}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  persistent
       adj 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 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}