adj
Meaning 1
Standing or resting on something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
insistent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 4
Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
repetitive and persistent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the bluejay's insistent cry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: repetitive
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
demanding attention- H.L.Mencken
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- clamant needs
- a crying need
- regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous
- insistent hunger
- an instant need
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: настойчив (nastojčiv) — urgent
- Czech: neústupný — urgent
- Czech: tvrdošíjný — urgent
- Czech: vytrvalý — urgent
- Czech: neodbytný — urgent
- Finnish: hellittämätön — urgent
- Finnish: itsepintainen — urgent
- Italian: insistente — urgent
- Māori: nonoi — urgent
- Plautdietsch: drinjent — urgent
- Russian: настойчивый (nastojčivyj) — urgent