Meanings
comparative more insistent · superlative most insistent
- obsoleteStanding or resting on something.
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
Hadadas roost in numbers among the trees in the leafier parts of Nairobi and their eponymous call is one of the more insistent elements of the dawn chorus in that part of the world, though they may be heard at any time of the day.
2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverepetitive and persistent
adjectivedemanding attention
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininsistens
- Englishinsistent
From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian настойчив
- настойчив (nastojčiv)urgent
Czech neústupný, tvrdošíjný
- neústupnýurgent
- tvrdošíjnýurgent
- vytrvalýurgent
- neodbytnýurgent
Finnish hellittämätön, itsepintainen
- hellittämätönurgent
- itsepintainenurgent
Italian insistente
- insistenteurgent
Māori nonoi
- nonoiurgent
Russian настойчивый
- настойчивый (nastojčivyj)urgent
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