Word:
Importunate
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
Making repeated or annoying requests or demands: causing annoyance or trouble.
Sentences:
1) The demands for chairmanship were becoming too importunate for me without a secretary.
2) She kept on making importunate requests.
Origin:
Early 16th century: from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’, based on Portunus, the name of the god who protected harbours (from portus ‘harbour’).
First use:
1528
Synonyms:
burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire
Antonyms:
noncritical, nonurgent.
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