Importunate
adjective
Excessively persistent in request or demand.
She was importunate in her demands for attention.
Often appears as...
- importunate demands
- importunate child
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Excessively persistent in request or demand.
She was importunate in her demands for attention.
Often appears as...
- importunate demands
- importunate child
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Persistent Urgency
Used to describe someone who won't stop until they get what they want, often annoyingly so.
The importunate salesman wouldn't leave until I closed the door.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that the persistence is unwelcome or uncomfortable for others.
His importunate requests for feedback began to irritate the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Demand
Shows strong emphasis on the intensity and continual nature of the demands.
Her importunate pleas for assistance made it clear she was desperate.
Pro Tip 1/3Persistent Urgency
Used to describe someone who won't stop until they get what they want, often annoyingly so.
The importunate salesman wouldn't leave until I closed the door.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that the persistence is unwelcome or uncomfortable for others.
His importunate requests for feedback began to irritate the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Demand
Shows strong emphasis on the intensity and continual nature of the demands.
Her importunate pleas for assistance made it clear she was desperate.
Pro Tip 1/3Persistent Urgency
Used to describe someone who won't stop until they get what they want, often annoyingly so.
The importunate salesman wouldn't leave until I closed the door.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that the persistence is unwelcome or uncomfortable for others.
His importunate requests for feedback began to irritate the team.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity of Demand
Shows strong emphasis on the intensity and continual nature of the demands.
Her importunate pleas for assistance made it clear she was desperate.
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Quote examples
Phyllis McGinley
American Author
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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Walter Pater
English Critic
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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Nicolas Chamfort
French Writer
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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Malcolm de Chazal
French Writer
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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Phyllis McGinley
American Author
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Quote examples
Walter Pater
English Critic
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Quote examples
Nicolas Chamfort
French Writer
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Quote examples
Malcolm de Chazal
French Writer
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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