Importunate

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  • adjective. Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Troublesomely solicitous or pressing; vexatiously persistent; pertinacious.
  • Troublesome; vexatious.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing.
  • adjective. Hard to be borne; unendurable.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
  • adjective. Of a person: given to importunate demands, selfishly or thoughtlessly demanding.
  • verb. To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
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  • adjective. expressing earnest entreaty
    • Word Usage
    "But I explained, in my purest Tuscan, that I was not of the ordinary kind of importunate tourist."
    Equivalent
    beseeching  imploring  pleading  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clamorous  greedy  impatient  imperious  impertinent  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aggravating  annoying  bothering  bothersome  cajoling  
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