Usually means: Persistently firm in demand, opinion.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word insistent:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. insistent: Merriam-Webster
  2. insistent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insistent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insistent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insistent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insistent, insistent: Wordnik
  7. insistent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insistent: Wiktionary
  9. insistent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insistent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insistent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Insistent, insistent: Dictionary.com
  13. insistent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Insistent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. insistent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. insistent: Rhymezone
  17. insistent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. insistent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. insistent: FreeDictionary.org
  20. insistent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. insistent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. insistent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insistent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insistent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
adjective:  Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
adjective:  Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
adjective:  (ornithology) 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.

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