insistent
[in-sis-tuh nt]
- earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
- compelling attention or notice: an insistent tone.
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Origin of insistent
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unrelenting, resolute, forceful, persistent, incessant, urgent, pressing, dire, assertive, emphatic, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dogged, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunateExamples from the Web for insistent
Contemporary Examples
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 ExLizzie Crocker
November 28, 2014
I want her to grow up to feel confident and powerful about herself and insistent about the world around her.
He would not allow his other teammates access to the best equipment, but was insistent that every cyclist dope.
The rule, which it must be said Taylor was insistent on, was that neither of us could spill or take a break.
Historical Examples
It troubled him—the insistent feeling of the eyes which had been upon him.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
We form a habit of conquering as insistent as any other habit.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
It continued musically low, but there was in it the insistent note of sincerity.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Sidney had been insistent, and Harriet had topped the argument in her businesslike way.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
But now it started off high pitched and insistent and did not stop.
The Man the Martians MadeFrank Belknap Long
insistent
- making continual and persistent demands
- demanding notice or attention; compellingthe insistent cry of a bird
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Word Origin and History for insistent
adj.
1620s, "standing on something," from Latin insistentem (nominative insistens), present participle of insistere (see insist). Meaning "dwelling firmly on something asserted" is from 1868. Related: Insistently.
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