perseverant

• perseveraunt (obsolete)
• perseverent

From Middle English perseveraunt, from Middle French perseverant, from Latin persevērāns, present participle of persevērō.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚsɪˈvɪɹənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəsɪˈvɪəɹənt/

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• Hyphenation: per‧se‧ve‧rant

perseverant (comparative more perseverant, superlative most perseverant)

1. Enduring; persistent, resistant.
   • 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 121:

     He was clumsy and struggling but perseverant, determined to accomplish the task he had set himself, and his keenness affronted Crystal.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pər.sə.βəˈɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pər.sə.vəˈɾant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.se.veˈɾant]

perseverant m or f (masculine and feminine plural perseverants)

1. perseverant, persistent

• perseverança
• perseverar

perseverant

1. gerund of perseverar

• “perseverant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “perseverant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “perseverant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perseverant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

persevērant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of persevērō