Same and Persistent

noun

• A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Saame
• The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Saame

adjective

• Same in identity.
  • usage: "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
• Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree.
  • usage: "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"
• Equal in amount or value.
  • usage: "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number"
  • synonyms: like
• Unchanged in character or nature.
  • usage: "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"

• (v.i.) Just mentioned or just about to be mentioned.
• (v.i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
• (v.i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

adjective

• Never-ceasing.
  • usage: "the relentless beat of the drums"
  • synonyms: relentless, unrelenting
• Continually recurring to the mind."haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty- Claudia Cassidy
  • synonyms: haunting
• Retained; not shed.
  • usage: "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
  • synonyms: lasting
• Stubbornly unyielding.
  • usage: "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it- T. S. Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
  • synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

• (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
• (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.