MEANING
To continue determined effort despite difficulty or discouragement.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- persevere in a task
- persevere through hardship
On the page
She persevered after the first reconstruction failed.
They persevered in the search without pretending that success was certain.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- persevere
- Past tense
- persevered
- Past participle
- persevered
- Present participle
- persevering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- persevere
- Present continuous
- am/is/are persevering
- Present perfect
- have/has persevered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been persevering
- Past
- persevered
- Past continuous
- was/were persevering
- Past perfect
- had persevered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been persevering
- Future
- will persevere
- Future continuous
- will be persevering
- Future perfect
- will have persevered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been persevering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: persevere; perseveres; persevered; persevered; persevering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: perseveres.
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