Crossword clues for insistent
insistent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insistent \In*sist"ent\, a. [L. insistens, -entis, p. pr. of insistere.]
Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.
--Sir H. Wotton.Insisting; persistent; persevering.
(Zo["o]l.) See Incumbent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "standing on something," from Latin insistentem (nominative insistens), present participle of insistere (see insist). Meaning "dwelling firmly on something asserted" is from 1868. Related: Insistently.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) stand or resting on something. 2 urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining. 3 extort attention or notice; coercively stare or prominent; vivid; intense. 4 (context ornithology English) 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.
WordNet
adj. persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry" [syn: repetitive]
demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, instant]
Usage examples of "insistent".
I needed to know in Vo Astur, and the invitations from the Ducal Palace were becoming more and more insistent, so I thanked the priests for their hospitality and left town before daybreak the following morning.
The birth was due at any time now, and Betta was insistent about wanting to use the name Amanda if it was a girl.
Only dimly aware of anything beyond the sharp needles of pleasure that bombarded her senses with every hard pull of his mouth on the tender tip, Aliya responded mindlessly to his insistent tug on the back of her knees, drawing up first one and then the other.
He had hated the insistent compulsions from Carida, but now he was left alone with his own thoughts--noto one else inside his skull to taunt him, or to guide him.
Once by an excited coastguardsman of my acquaintance and once by a lieutenant, a calmer man but equally insistent that I should come.
His ringed cockhead now pressed bluntly at her anus, its pressure slow, steady, insistent.
South - vague, but always insistent rumors that the addiction to such drugs as morphine and cocaine was becoming a veritable curse to the colored race in certain regions.
And the lights continued to signal the same letter over and over, as if for insistent emphasis, and that third letter of the futhark is the rune called thorn.
The distressed, insistent voice of the orderly hummed through the communicator.
Portolis was insistent, maintaining that any lesser action would leave him meanspirited in his own eyes.
The complaints of the Newfoundlanders became more frequent, more insistent, and more emphatic.
Hitler had been so insistent that Kolff inspect Nordhausen that he deemed it prudent to fly directly to that extraordinary site, and within two and a half hours they were landing at a secret airstrip on the southern rim of the Harz Mountains.
For long we saw nothing of the beings whose sounds were so abundant and insistent.
And the more he thought about it, the more insistent grew the claims of little Bourcelles, and the more that portentous Scheme for Disabled Thingumabobs faded into dimness.
The shrilling of the syrinx and the insistent thudding of the tympanon seem louder now.