Sedulous vs Pertinacious - What's the difference?
sedulous | pertinacious |
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
* 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
* 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
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 sedulous and pertinacious
is that sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous while pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.sedulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.