Dictionary

persist en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /pəˈsɪst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /pɚˈsɪst/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle French persister (Modern French persister), from Latin persistere, from per- + sistere (“to stand”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
   • There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history. 1912, Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War:
2. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
3. (intransitive) To continue to exist.
   • Much of this prejudice, indeed, persists; for instance, in the heavy handicappings with which insurance companies saddle their West Indian policies, […] 1868, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, page 238:
   • Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:
4. (copulative, intransitive, obsolete) To continue to be; to remain.
5. (transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.
   • This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us to persist the settings. 2006, Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming:
   • While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading. 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:

Forms

Antonyms

yield · break · fail

Deriveds

persist it down · persist down · hyperpersist · persistive · persistability · persistingly · persistable · unpersist · persistor · repersist

Hyponyms

survive · wear on

Relateds

exist (cognate terms using -sist) · insist (cognate terms using -sist) · subsist (cognate terms using -sist) · persistence · desist (cognate terms using -sist) · absist (cognate terms using -sist) · persevere · consist (cognate terms using -sist) · resist (cognate terms using -sist) · persistent · assist (cognate terms using -sist) · persistency

Synonyms

hold on · go on · abide · stick · astand · stick out · stick it out · remain · endure · hold · live · last (continue to exist) · persist · persevere (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · aby · prevail · lie

Translations (59)

gl persistir (continue to exist) · hu fennáll (continue to exist) · it persistere (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · es persistir (continue to exist) · cmn 堅持 /坚持 (continue to exist) · fi itsepintaisesti pitää kiinni (continue to exist) · ar ثَابَرَ (continue to exist) · da vedblive (continue to exist) · ko 고집하다 (continue to exist) · hu tovább él (continue to exist) · fi pysyä järkähtämättömänä (continue to exist) · gd lean air (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · da fortsætte (continue to exist) · tr vazgeçmemek (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · sq rri (continue to exist) · hu fennmarad (continue to exist) · hu rendületlenül (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · nl volharden (continue to exist) · mi oke (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ru выживать (continue to exist) · hu ragaszkodik (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · tr sebat etmek (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · tr sürmek (continue to exist) · hu kitart (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · fr persister (continue to exist) · da vedblive (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · de beharren (continue to exist) · mi whakakeke (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ca persistir (continue to exist) · ota قوغمق (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ja 固執する (continue to exist) · vi kiên trì (continue to exist) · ja 言い張る (continue to exist) · fi olla edelleen olemassa (continue to exist) · mi whakakeke (continue to exist) · bg настоявам (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · da fortsætte (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ja 尾を引く (continue to exist) · ru упо́рствовать (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ja 貫く (continue to exist) · got 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · mi hohota (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · th ยืนหยัด (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · bg упорствам (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · ja 持続する (continue to exist) · ja 残存する (continue to exist) · bg устоявам (continue to exist) · it persistere (continue to exist) · he עמד (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · sv envisas (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · pt persistir (continue to exist) · sv framhärda (continue to exist) · eo persisto (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · gd lean (continue to exist) · tr sürdürmek (continue to exist) · hu kitartóan (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · hu folytatódik (continue to exist) · la persevērō (go on stubbornly or resolutely) · la persistō (go on stubbornly or resolutely)