Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to importunate
Participle: importunated
Gerund: importunating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | importunate |
| you | importunate |
| he;she;it | importunates |
| we | importunate |
| you | importunate |
| they | importunate |
Perfect
| I | have importunated |
| you | have importunated |
| he;she;it | has importunated |
| we | have importunated |
| you | have importunated |
| they | have importunated |
Past
| I | importunated |
| you | importunated |
| he;she;it | importunated |
| we | importunated |
| you | importunated |
| they | importunated |
Pluperfect
| I | had importunated |
| you | had importunated |
| he;she;it | had importunated |
| we | had importunated |
| you | had importunated |
| they | had importunated |
Future
| I | will importunate |
| you | will importunate |
| he;she;it | will importunate |
| we | will importunate |
| you | will importunate |
| they | will importunate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have importunated |
| you | will have importunated |
| he;she;it | will have importunated |
| we | will have importunated |
| you | will have importunated |
| they | will have importunated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | importunate |
| you | importunate |
| he;she;it | importunate |
| we | importunate |
| you | importunate |
| they | importunate |
Perfect
| I | have importunated |
| you | have importunated |
| he;she;it | have importunated |
| we | have importunated |
| you | have importunated |
| they | have importunated |
Imperfect
| I | importunated |
| you | importunated |
| he;she;it | importunated |
| we | importunated |
| you | importunated |
| they | importunated |
Pluperfect
| I | had importunated |
| you | had importunated |
| he;she;it | had importunated |
| we | had importunated |
| you | had importunated |
| they | had importunated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would importunate |
| you | would importunate |
| he;she;it | would importunate |
| we | would importunate |
| you | would importunate |
| they | would importunate |
Perfect
| I | would have importunated |
| you | would have importunated |
| he;she;it | would have importunated |
| we | would have importunated |
| you | would have importunated |
| they | would have importunated |
Imperative
| you | importunate |
| we | Let's importunate |
| you | importunate |
Verbs conjugated like 'importunate'
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 'importunate'
importune,
impersonate,
imposthumate,
impregnate,
apportionate,
expostulate,
impanate,
impetrate,
impinguate,
imprecate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in 1574; adapted borrowing of French importuner (“to bother, disturb”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again. [1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G., Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173]
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Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.” [1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects, Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43]
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It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else. [1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in Sunset, Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece]