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. Pirkei Avot:

   The day is short, the task is great, the master is insistent. It is not your duty to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it…

2. 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.

3. 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.

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. Robert Collier:

   Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat