Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to importune
Participle: importuned
Gerund: importuning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | importune |
| you | importune |
| he;she;it | importunes |
| we | importune |
| you | importune |
| they | importune |
Perfect
| I | have importuned |
| you | have importuned |
| he;she;it | has importuned |
| we | have importuned |
| you | have importuned |
| they | have importuned |
Past
| I | importuned |
| you | importuned |
| he;she;it | importuned |
| we | importuned |
| you | importuned |
| they | importuned |
Pluperfect
| I | had importuned |
| you | had importuned |
| he;she;it | had importuned |
| we | had importuned |
| you | had importuned |
| they | had importuned |
Future
| I | will importune |
| you | will importune |
| he;she;it | will importune |
| we | will importune |
| you | will importune |
| they | will importune |
Future Perfect
| I | will have importuned |
| you | will have importuned |
| he;she;it | will have importuned |
| we | will have importuned |
| you | will have importuned |
| they | will have importuned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | importune |
| you | importune |
| he;she;it | importune |
| we | importune |
| you | importune |
| they | importune |
Perfect
| I | have importuned |
| you | have importuned |
| he;she;it | have importuned |
| we | have importuned |
| you | have importuned |
| they | have importuned |
Imperfect
| I | importuned |
| you | importuned |
| he;she;it | importuned |
| we | importuned |
| you | importuned |
| they | importuned |
Pluperfect
| I | had importuned |
| you | had importuned |
| he;she;it | had importuned |
| we | had importuned |
| you | had importuned |
| they | had importuned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would importune |
| you | would importune |
| he;she;it | would importune |
| we | would importune |
| you | would importune |
| they | would importune |
Perfect
| I | would have importuned |
| you | would have importuned |
| he;she;it | would have importuned |
| we | would have importuned |
| you | would have importuned |
| they | would have importuned |
Imperative
| you | importune |
| we | Let's importune |
| you | importune |
Verbs conjugated like 'importune'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'importune'
importunate,
opportune,
reimportune,
befortune,
fortune,
impasture,
impone,
import,
imposthume,
impound,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1425 (implied in
importunely), from M.Fr.
importuner, from M.L.
importunari "to make oneself troublesome," from L.
importunus "unfit, troublesome," originally "having no harbor" (i.e. "difficult to access"), from
in- "not" +
portus "harbor" (see port).
Importunate is 1529, from L.
importunus.
2. From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor". See: Middle French '
importuner'.
Sample Sentences
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To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XVII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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But I will no longer importune my young cousin. [1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 155:]
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Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […] [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 210, column 2, lines 50–51:]
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You were kneel'd to, & importun'd otherwiſe / By all of vs; […] [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 7, column 1:]
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[W]e have been obliged to hire Troops from ſeveral Princes of the Empire, whoſe Ministers and Reſidents here, have perpetually importuned the Court with unreaſonable Demands, under which our late Miniſters thought fit to be Paſſive. [1711 December 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Jonathan Swift], The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War, 4th edition, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, page 57:]
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It importunes death. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:]