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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 manager might be heroically deadpan but that doesn't matter so much when his team is so rent with drama, so insistent on taking their fans on wild flights from joy to concern to despair and anger, to hope and then back to joy again.

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But the jolly tone gives way to something fiercer and more appropriately epic: a galloping rhythm on the drums, insistent bass and scorching guitar notes.

Oscar, who says he once missed his train because an insistent fan made him sign an autograph, adds: "People want to think there's a deeper meaning to these events, but really we're all just bored millennials and Gen Z looking for something to do."

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He also once had to pretend to be the British singer when he met his friend's four-year-old son, who was "so insistent that I was really him".

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Nik describes this possibility as a "very subtle but very insistent background noise".

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