Importunate
[ɪm'pɔːtjʊnət] or [ɪm'pɔrtʃənət]
Definition
(adj.) expressing earnest entreaty; 'an importunate job applicant' .
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Definition
(a.) Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.
(a.) Hard to be borne; unendurable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, earnestly solicitous.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Over-urgent, over-entreative, pressing
ANT:Modest, diffident
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Examples
- You have been strangely importunate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Because, as you didn't send her your address, she was afraid of being importunate. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It must be remembered that he had never hitherto felt the check of importunate debt, and he walked by habit, not by self-criticism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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