importunate

Examples

• All

• Jason, Doug, take our importunate young vampire up to the sun porch and chain him there.

  Fiction book (1990)

• She found his importunate requests for help to be quite overwhelming.

• I promise not to be importunate with you.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I have never been importunate.

  Fiction book (2001)

• "Luke!" Her importunate tone stopped him.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The sound came to her, discordant and importunate.

  Fiction book (1999)

• If he had not been so importunate, then his faith truly could have been counted as folly.

  Academic text (2008)

• Afraid of being importunate.

  The House of Mirth (2000)

• Another long ring sounded, and another, while I lay in my apathy, wishing the importunate caller away.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The importunate child kept asking for a toy, unable to take no for an answer.

Synonyms

I

insistent

vsimportunate

45 4.1

Demanding attention or action again and again in a firm way

press by repeated annoying requests rather than by force

P

pestering

vsimportunate

1 3.2

A person who annoys another person by asking again and again

focuses on repeated requests and demands rather than general annoyance

H

houndy

vsimportunate

1 8.8

Constantly bothering someone by following or asking them

uses repeated verbal requests and annoying pleas rather than physical pursuit

Antonyms

S

submissive

39 5.1

Willing to obey others and not argue

U

unassertive

1 6.2

Not confident about saying what you think or want

How Insistent

importunate

• Formal

1 9.9

pushy

• Informal

68 5.0

insistent

45 4.1

assertive

41 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology