adjective
- Never-ceasing.
- usage: "the relentless beat of the drums"
- synonyms: relentless, unrelenting
- Continually recurring to the mind."haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty- Claudia Cassidy
- synonyms: haunting
- Retained; not shed.
- usage: "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
- synonyms: lasting
- Stubbornly unyielding.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
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