importunate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   persistently demanding or pleading, often to an annoying degree

   The importunate visitor continued asking to be admitted despite repeated refusals.

From Middle French importun, ultimately from Latin importunus ("inconvenient, troublesome, unsuitable"), with the English adjectival ending -ate influenced by related forms. Its sense developed from being troublesome or untimely to pressing a request with unwelcome persistence.

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