#pervicacious

[5wordsaday]

pervicacious (adj.)

extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn

[monriatitans]

WORD OF THE DAY Sunday, June 5, 2022 OED Word of the Day: pervicacious, adj. Thoroughly obstinate or stubborn; headstrong, wilful, refractory.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "I'm a word nerd. I get a kick out of tossing a few odd ones into my column, just to see if the pervicacious editors will weed them out." - 2001, Technol. Rev. (Nexis) 1 June 25

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[wooingwithwords]

pervicacious

pervicacious a. very obstinate

“Lucius! Lucius! Put those binoculars away and come and open the wine. Sometimes you are so exasperating with your pervicacious bird watching.”

[wooingwithwords]

pervicacious

pervicacious a. very obstinate

“Lucius! Lucius! Put those binoculars away and come and open the wine. Sometimes you are so exasperating with your pervicacious bird watching.”

[the-intern-archives]

word of the day: "pervicacious"

pervicacious (puhr-vi-KAY-shuhs) 

MEANING:  adjective: Very stubborn.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pervicax (stubborn). Earliest documented use: 1633.  

USAGE: "Your grandmother had spunk, bless her pervicacious soul. ... She had a stubborn streak, you see, very stubborn." David Curry Kahn; Her Mother's Diary; Wheatmark; 2010.

[musingsofalibertine]

Word of the Day 10/01/2012 - pervicacious

pervicacious a. very obstinate.

"Lucius! Lucius! Put those binoculars away and come and get your dinner. Sometimes you are so exasperating with your pervicacious bird watching."