Meaning of IMPORTUNATE
| Pronunciation: | | im'porchunit
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[adj] expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice" |
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IMPORTUNATE is a 11 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | appealing, beseeching, imploring, pleading |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*por"tu*nate\, a. [See {Importune}.]
1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous;
overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an
impotunate petitioner, curiosity. --Whewell.
2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. [R.] --Donne. --
{Im*por"tu*nate*ly}, adv. -- {Im*por"tu*nate*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, cajoling, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compulsory, controlled, crying, demanding, disturbing, draining, dunning, exacting, exasperating, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, firm-minded, forward, galling, grasping, harassing, imperative, importune, independent, insistent, instant, irking, irksome, irritating, loud, mandatory, nagging, necessary, necessitous, obligatory, persistent, pertinacious, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, pressing, provoking, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, strong-minded, strong-willed, taxing, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, urgent, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedling, without choice, worrisome, worrying |
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