Synonyms of the word importune


IMPORTUNEBEG - IMPLORE - INSIST - PRAY

importune

  • v. To bother, trouble, irritate.
  • v. To harass with persistent requests.
  • v. To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
  • v. (obsolete) To import; to signify.
  • adj. (obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting.
  • adj. (obsolete) Inopportune; unseasonable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Troublesome; vexatious; persistent.

beg

  • v. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
  • v. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
  • v. (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question.
  • v. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question.
  • v. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
  • abbr. (knitting) beginning.

implore

  • v. To beg urgently or earnestly.
  • v. To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

insist

  • v. (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
  • v. (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be…
  • v. (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

pray

  • v. To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
  • v. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
  • v. (religion) To communicate with God for any reason.
  • v. (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  • adv. Please; used to make a polite request.

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