Synonyms for insistent
ɪnˈsɪs təntin·sis·tent

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1. insistent, repetitiveadjective

   repetitive and persistent

   "the bluejay's insistent cry"

   Synonyms:
   crying, repetitious, repetitive, exigent, clamant, instant

   Antonyms:
   imploring, sporadic, beseeching, pleading

2. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantadjective

   demanding attention

   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

   Synonyms:
   instant, clamant, instant(a), egregious, exigent, glaring, gross, flagrant, strident, repetitive, vociferous, crying(a), blatant, clamorous, instantaneous, exacting, rank, crying, inst

   Antonyms:
   sporadic, beseeching, pleading, imploring

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1. insistentadjective

   Synonyms:
   persistent, importunate, insisting

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1. List of paraphrases for "insistent":

   pushy, tenacious

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1. President Barack Obama:

   They're all representative of the strength and the unity and the love that exists in the community and in this community, despite the pain and the heartache that they're feeling, they could not have been more inspiring and more proud of their loved ones and more insistent that something good comes out of this tragedy.

2. Lao Tzu:

   One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

3. John Wilford:

   Nikolas Cruz was pretty insistent on it and I said no, i was just trying to get home, my sister wasn't answering her phone, I was nervous, I was panicked. I also had a bad gut feeling about it.

4. Boris Johnson:

   One column a week was absorbing enough money to pay for what, five reporters ? the constant history of the Telegraph over the last 15 years has been cuts to editorial because the owners are insistent the company had to hit the profit target, And yet you've also got him sitting in the middle of your budget, this line item of £ 275,000 per year for one column a week.

5. Carlos Leon:

   My mom is very insistent on making me think about what I want to be known for beyond my looks, that’s not what I want people to remember me by. It’s not real.