importunate

adjective
🔊/ɪmˈpɔːtʃənət/
🔊/ɪmˈpɔːrtʃənət/
(formal)
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  1. asking for things many times in a way that is annoying再三要求的;纠缠不休的
    • importunate demands/pleas重要的要求/请求
    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.