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insistent

[ in-sis-tuhnt ]

adjective

  1. earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
  2. compelling attention or notice:

    an insistent tone.



insistent

/ ɪnˈsɪstənt /

adjective

  1. making continual and persistent demands
  2. demanding notice or attention; compelling

    the insistent cry of a bird



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Derived Forms

  • inˈsistently, adverb
  • inˈsistence, noun

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Other Words From

  • in·sistent·ly adverb
  • nonin·sistent adjective
  • over·in·sistent adjective
  • over·in·sistent·ly adverb
  • quasi-in·sistent adjective
  • quasi-in·sistent·ly adverb
  • super·in·sistent adjective
  • super·in·sistent·ly adverb
  • unin·sistent adjective
  • unin·sistent·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of insistent1

1615–25; < Latin insistent- (stem of in-sistēns ), present participle of insistere. See insist, -ent

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Example Sentences

The drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous.

But Hollande was “insistent,” she writes, and “his strength of persuasion was nuclear.”

My collaborator, Darcy Evans, and I are very insistent on calling Stealing Sam a “one-person play” and not a solo show.

This great healing event for veterans has been pushed aside by a few ATV advocates insistent on illegally riding their silly toys.

I want her to grow up to feel confident and powerful about herself and insistent about the world around her.

And he was so infernally insistent about it, that she was forced to pull up and get away from the post in self-defense.

The music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.

Even her violent outburst of temper had not stilled the insistent voice which in reiteration never wearied.

The incident, however, gave Darry a chance to break away from the insistent Belle.

Therefore is there, in me, at least, an insistent whisper for ancestral and long denied rights.

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