Indomitable vs Pertinacious - What's the difference?
indomitable | pertinacious |
Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
* 1902 , , The Four Feathers , ch. 1:
* 1910 , , A Shepherd's Life , ch. 7:
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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 indomitable and pertinacious
is that indomitable is incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished while pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.indomitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
- But he was a youth of indomitable spirit, strong and agile as a wild cat.
When Betty Got Frank," Time , 31 March:
- Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" . . . . [S]he was indomitable , unstoppable.