Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Very obstinate; stubborn; wilfully contrary or refractory; wilful.
Wiktionary
- adj. stubborn, willful, obstinate, refractory
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Obstinate; willful; refractory.
Examples
“Of late, I am told by shopkeepers, the tin box with the pervicacious cover is becoming popular; but I remain true to my sponge in a bottle: for, unlike the leopard, I am able to change my spots.”
“May they be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of!”
Lists
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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behoove, germane, imbroglio, pervicacious, squalid, bombastic, pudendum, chimera, crapulous, i-know-huh, ersatz, ennui and 8 more...
yarb "Nicholas instantly resumed, demanding of Mrs. Barclay with amazed innocence other women other women must she be like a pervicacious angel think that because he loved her with every beat of his heart, love and had loved, as she herself well remembered and in this house should remember best of all..."
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl Dec 22, 2011