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. Lao Tzu:

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

2. Carlos Leon:

   My mom is very insistent on making me think about what I want to be known for beyond my looks, that’s not what I want people to remember me by. It’s not real.

3. President Barack Obama:

   They're all representative of the strength and the unity and the love that exists in the community and in this community, despite the pain and the heartache that they're feeling, they could not have been more inspiring and more proud of their loved ones and more insistent that something good comes out of this tragedy.

4. 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.

5. 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