insistent
earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
compelling attention or notice: an insistent tone.
Origin of insistent
1Other words from insistent
- 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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How to use insistent in a sentence
The few that remained were removed before the improvised singers’ insistent chorus.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part III | Yariel Valdés González | July 21, 2021 | Washington BladeHer insistent perception — the real action of this novel — is her greatest skill and her riskiest vulnerability.
Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas | Ron Charles | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostAlthough some of her family members are still insistent against the vaccine, Crawford said, she is holding out hope that the Delta variant might be “scaring straight at least a few folks.”
It’s Summer 2020 on Steroids in This COVID Tourist Trap | Pilar Melendez | July 9, 2021 | The Daily BeastIt starts in the mouth, the initial pang of craving quite subtle and easy to ignore, but the signals get more insistent.
He was insistent, however, that having professional athletes wearing their product was essential to a running shoe company’s credibility.
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.”
Hell Hath No Fury Like Valerie Trierweiler, the French President’s Ex | Lizzie Crocker | November 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy collaborator, Darcy Evans, and I are very insistent on calling Stealing Sam a “one-person play” and not a solo show.
Into the Grindr of the Gay Dating Game: Sex, Death, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’ | Tim Teeman | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis great healing event for veterans has been pushed aside by a few ATV advocates insistent on illegally riding their silly toys.
The Idea of Public Land Means Nothing to Utah County Commissioner | Doug Peacock | May 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI 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.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinEven her violent outburst of temper had not stilled the insistent voice which in reiteration never wearied.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe incident, however, gave Darry a chance to break away from the insistent Belle.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseTherefore is there, in me, at least, an insistent whisper for ancestral and long denied rights.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for insistent
/ (ɪnˈsɪstənt) /
making continual and persistent demands
demanding notice or attention; compelling: the insistent cry of a bird
Derived forms of insistent
- insistence or insistency, noun
- insistently, adverb
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