We listened to the insistent crashing of waves on the beach.
Margaret Sanger is remembered as an insistent crusader for birth control.
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First Known Use: 1868
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yeardogged, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious;
quitting, surrendering, yielding;
faltering, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, wavering;
disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous;
assured, certain, dedicated, determined, firm, hell-bent, intent, positive, resolute, resolved, single-minded, sure;
adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, indurate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unregenerate, unyielding, willful (or wilful);
unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering;
resistant, wayward, wrongheaded;
constant, devoted, faithful, good, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true;
hard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelenting;
: demanding that something happen or that someone do something
: happening for a long time and very difficult to ignore
See words that rhyme with insistent Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for insistent Spanish Central: Translation of insistent Nglish: Translation of insistent for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of insistent for Arabic speakers
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