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

Other Word Forms

• insistently adverb
• noninsistent adjective
• overinsistent adjective
• overinsistently adverb
• quasi-insistent adjective
• quasi-insistently adverb
• superinsistent adjective
• superinsistently adverb
• uninsistent adjective
• uninsistently adverb
• insistence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of insistent¹

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

Example Sentences

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.”

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Autumn repeats with insistent eyes, as if she’s trying to get an answer out of me.

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She might have slept longer, after the exhausting hike of the previous day, but that plunk—plunk—plunking sound was as insistent as a blacksmith’s hammer.

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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.

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During this month’s federal government shutdown, Republicans were ruthlessly insistent on worsening inequalities in the name of breaking or shaking up the system.

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Related Words

• assertive 
• dire 
• emphatic 
• forceful 
• incessant 
• persistent 
• pressing 
• resolute 
• unrelenting 
• urgent