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

Each bite tastes like a season in itself — sweet, comforting and stubbornly insistent that summer doesn’t have to leave all at once.

From Salon

But his first Emmy hosting gig revealed an insistent tone deafness that he could not steer out of, and it made a parade of worthwhile wins into a slog.

From Salon

Songs are by turns epic, edgy, spacey and insistent.

From Los Angeles Times

But among the pristine greens and carefully sculpted fairways of his luxury resorts there is no escaping those urgent, insistent questions about hunger and suffering among the ruins of war.

From BBC

The docuseries’ insistent focus on placing the survivors’ histories first leaves it to the first responders who were on the ground to sort the mess from a logistical point of view.

From Salon

Related Words

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