insistent
Americanadjective
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earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
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compelling attention or notice.
an insistent tone.
adjective
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making continual and persistent demands
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demanding notice or attention; compelling
the insistent cry of a bird
Other Word Forms
- insistence noun
- insistently adverb
- noninsistent adjective
- overinsistent adjective
- overinsistently adverb
- quasi-insistent adjective
- quasi-insistently adverb
- superinsistent adjective
- superinsistently adverb
- uninsistent adjective
- uninsistently adverb
Etymology
Origin of insistent
1615–25; < Latin insistent- (stem of in-sistēns ), present participle of insistere. See insist, -ent
Example Sentences
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After the UMG-Udio deal was announced, Jordan Bromley, a board member at the nonprofit Music Artists Coalition and Manatt Entertainment Group Leader, said he was “cautiously optimistic but insistent on details.”
From Los Angeles Times
All involved in the dispute are in agreement that a new school for the area is needed, and members of the local authority are insistent Whitegates is the best option.
From BBC
During this month’s federal government shutdown, Republicans were ruthlessly insistent on worsening inequalities in the name of breaking or shaking up the system.
From Salon
Beauty-review sites create buzz for products that earn them commissions via affiliate marketing with insistent headlines: “Do You Have a Butt Care Routine? You Should,” “Are You Being Kind to Your Butt?”
From Salon
“If the Republicans are so insistent on sticking it to their own voters on this issue,” they said, “why don’t the Democrats just let them?”
From Salon
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