Crossword Dictionary

insistent

adjective

Earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.

synonyms

assertive, incessant, persistent, resolute, unrelenting, dogged

examples:

‘The few that remained were removed before the improvised singers’ insistent chorus.’

‘Her insistent perception — the real action of this novel — is her greatest skill and her riskiest vulnerability.’

‘Although some of her family members are still insistent against the vaccine, Crawford said, she is holding out hope that the Delta variant might be “scaring straight at least a few folks.”’

‘It starts in the mouth, the initial pang of craving quite subtle and easy to ignore, but the signals get more insistent.’