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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. repetitive and persistent;
- Example: "the bluejay's insistent cry"
[syn: insistent, repetitive]

2. demanding attention;
- Example: "clamant needs"
- Example: "a crying need"
- Example: "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken
- Example: "insistent hunger"
- Example: "an instant need"
[syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Insistent \In*sist"ent\, a. [L. insistens, -entis, p. pr. of
   insistere.]
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   1. Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.
      --Sir H. Wotton.
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   2. Insisting; persistent; persevering.
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   3. (Zool.) See Incumbent.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

insistent
    adj 1: repetitive and persistent; "the bluejay's insistent cry"
           [syn: insistent, repetitive]
    2: 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, insistent, instant]