importunate

• Qualifie une personne qui demande ou sollicite avec insistance et de manière agaçante; persévérant et exigeant dans son comportement.

Describes a person who persistently and annoyingly asks for something; urgent and pressing in manner.

1. Persistent in requestC2formal

   Making persistent and urgent requests or demands, often annoyingly so.

   Importun, pressant

   • The importunate beggar followed her down the street.
   • His importunate pleas for a loan became tiresome.
   • She was importunate in her demands for a promotion.

   Synonymesdemandingdoggedinsistentpersistentpertinaciouspressingtenacioustroublesomeunyieldingurgent

   Antonymesdiffidentmodestreservedreticentunassertiveunassuming