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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating: an importunate job seeker.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Troublesomely solicitous or pressing; vexatiously persistent; pertinacious.
  2. Troublesome; vexatious.

Wiktionary

  1. v. rare To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
  2. adj. Of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
  3. adj. Of a person: given to importunate demands, selfishly or thoughtlessly demanding.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing.
  2. adj. rare Hard to be borne; unendurable.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. expressing earnest entreaty

Etymologies

  1. From Latin importune +‎ -ate (Wiktionary)

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  • yarb ...how she now dreaded
    each night the importunate mauve-capped swollen member.

    - Peter Reading, Carte Postale, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008

  • dhuber "expressing earnest entreaty"

    -an alliterative definition Nov 15, 2007

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