Synonyms for insistent
ɪnˈsɪs təntin·sis·tent

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1. insistent, repetitiveadjective

   repetitive and persistent

   "the bluejay's insistent cry"

   Synonyms:
   crying, repetitious, repetitive, exigent, clamant, instant

   Antonyms:
   imploring, sporadic, beseeching, pleading

2. clamant, 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, inst

   Antonyms:
   sporadic, beseeching, pleading, imploring

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1. insistentadjective

   Synonyms:
   persistent, importunate, insisting

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1. List of paraphrases for "insistent":

   pushy, tenacious

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1. Jeb Bush:

   That team took out the Soviet Union because we were strong and insistent. With Ronald Reagan our friends knew that we had their backs and our enemies feared us. And we were strong and resolute.

2. Robert Collier:

   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

3. Julie Churchill:

   If pet parents are insistent on feeding raw, I try to steer them toward raw pet foods that have undergone high-pressure pasteurization to decrease the risk of pathogenic bacteria.

4. Boris Johnson:

   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.

5. Lao Tzu:

   One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.