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Synonyms for insistent
ɪnˈsɪs təntin·sis·tent
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Princeton's WordNet
insistent, repetitiveadjective
repetitive and persistent
"the bluejay's insistent cry"
Synonyms:
crying, repetitious, repetitive, exigent, clamant, instantAntonyms:
imploring, sporadic, beseeching, pleadingclamant, 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, instAntonyms:
sporadic, beseeching, pleading, imploring
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
insistentadjective
Synonyms:
persistent, importunate, insisting
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2219 | rank | |
#2783 | instant | |
#4253 | gross | |
#10209 | crying | |
#11479 | inst | |
#14938 | repetitive | |
#16946 | tenacious | |
#23870 | instantaneous | |
#26101 | blatant | |
#34115 | glaring | |
#39188 | exacting | |
#43354 | egregious | |
#52223 | flagrant | |
#54498 | insistent | |
#58234 | pushy | |
#69206 | strident | |
#80417 | exigent | |
#84357 | repetitious | |
#94339 | vociferous | |
#167145 | clamorous |
How to use insistent in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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