Immovable vs Pertinacious - What's the difference?
immovable | pertinacious | Related terms |
Incapable of being physically moved; fixed.
Steadfast in purpose or intention; unalterable, unyielding.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 101:
Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling; impassive.
(legal) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed.
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.
As adjectives the difference between immovable and pertinacious
is that immovable is incapable of being physically moved; fixed while pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.As a noun immovable
is that which can not be moved; something which is immovable.immovable
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Alternative forms
* immoveableAdjective
(en adjective)- I pleaded with him not to resign, but he was immovable .
- (Dryden)
- an immovable estate
