| Library / English Dictionary |
INSISTENT
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Repetitive and persistent
Example:
the bluejay's insistent cry
Synonyms:
insistent; repetitive
Classified under:
Similar:
continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)
Derivation:
insistence (continual and persistent demands)
insistence (the state of demanding notice or attention)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Demanding attention
Example:
an instant need
Synonyms:
clamant; crying; exigent; insistent; instant
Classified under:
Similar:
imperative (requiring attention or action)
Derivation:
insistency (the state of demanding notice or attention)
Context examples:
If you have been unhappy or hesitant to commit to your steady, your doubts may grow and become more insistent, especially at the full moon lunar eclipse in Cancer on January 10.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In an insistent way she had caught glimpses of the large, easy-going side of his nature, and she felt sure, if she asked him to cease attempting to write, that he would grant her wish.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For days his manifestations of desire to lay hands on him had been growing more insistent, and during that time White Fang had been compelled to avoid the camp.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There was a line that a week before he would not have favored with a second thought—"God's own mad lover dying on a kiss"; but now it was ever insistent in his mind.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Later on, when the overtures became more insistent, White Fang bristled and bared his teeth and backed away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In his insistent crawling toward the light, he discovered in her a nose that with a sharp nudge administered rebuke, and later, a paw, that crushed him down and rolled him over and over with swift, calculating stroke.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Excited by the day- long pursuit of him, swayed subconsciously by the insistent iteration on their brains of the sight of him fleeing away, mastered by the feeling of mastery enjoyed all day, the dogs could not bring themselves to give way to him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in the northern woods.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
