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Definition of importunate adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

importunate

adjective

/ɪmˈpɔːtʃənət/

/ɪmˈpɔːrtʃənət/

(formal)

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asking for things many times in a way that is annoying
- importunate demands/pleas
Topics Personal qualitiesc2
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’, based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbours (from portus ‘harbour’); compare with opportune.

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