persistent

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 11.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

   She has had a persistent cough for weeks.

2. adjective Insistently repetitive.

   There was a persistent knocking on the door.

3. adjective Indefinitely continuous.

   There have been persistent rumours for years.

4. adjective Lasting past maturity without falling off.

   Pine cones have persistent scales.

5. adjective Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.

   Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

6. adjective Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
7. adjective non-transient.

Similar words

lasting continual relentless unrelenting unforgettable haunting dogged obstinate tenacious stubborn

Often followed by

and in or efforts effort pain vegetative problems problem

Word family

persist persisted persistence persistently persisting persists