Persistent
 

persistent
adjective1.never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"2.continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy[syn: haunting]3.retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"[ant: caducous]4.stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"[syn: dogged]