Meanings
comparative more insistently · superlative most insistently
- In an insistent manner; pressingly.
Three Texas teachers heard giggles as they insistently knocked on the front door of their student’s home.
2021 March 8, Kelsie Smith, “Teachers are making surprise visits to students who are struggling with online learning”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Jun 20212 more examples
It is conceivable that there might be in man a virtue as strong and buoyant, as unconquerable and unsubmersible, as the physical characteristics of his race, like them remaining insistently dominant through all the ages.
1914, Katherine Clemmons Gould, The crystal rood, page 7The youngest son, Vardaman, is unable to cope with Addie's death and drills airholes in her coffin (and accidentally into her head) and insistently declares, "My mother is a fish"--like the big one he recently caught and gutted.
1995 July 14, Albert Williams, “Words First”, in Chicago Reader
Origin
Translations
Catalan insistentment
- insistentmentin an insistent manner
Esperanto insiste
- insistein an insistent manner
Finnish itsepintaisesti, hellittämättömästi
- itsepintaisestiin an insistent manner
- hellittämättömästiin an insistent manner
Italian insistentemente
- insistentementein an insistent manner
Portuguese insistentemente
- insistentementein an insistent manner
Spanish insistentemente, encarecidamente
- insistentementein an insistent manner
- encarecidamentein an insistent manner
Swedish enträget
- enträgetin an insistent manner
Cite this entry
insistently. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insistently
“insistently.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insistently. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insistently,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insistently.
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