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Argumentative vs Pertinacious - What's the difference?

argumentative | pertinacious |

As adjectives the difference between argumentative and pertinacious

is that argumentative is prone to argue or dispute while pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.

argumentative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Prone to argue or dispute

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    () * argue * arguer * arguable * argument * argumentation

    See also

    * disputatious * dispute

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    pertinacious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
  • * 1884', , "The Path of Duty" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 2 (15): 240–256.
  • *:He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
  • Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

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    * pertinaciousness * pertinacity