INSIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does insist mean?
• INSIST (verb)
The verb INSIST has 3 senses:
1. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
2. beg persistently and urgently
3. assert to be true
Familiarity information: INSIST used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INSIST (verb)
Meaning:
Be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
insist; take a firm stand
Context example:
I must insist!
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "insist"):
hold firm; stand fast; stand firm; stand pat (refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief)
assert; asseverate; maintain (state categorically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Meaning:
Beg persistently and urgently
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
importune; insist
Context example:
I importune you to help them
Hypernyms (to "insist" is one way to...):
beg; implore; pray (call upon in supplication; entreat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "insist"):
besiege (harass, as with questions or requests)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They insist to move
Meaning:
Assert to be true
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
insist; assert
Context example:
The letter asserts a free society
Hypernyms (to "insist" is one way to...):
posit; postulate (take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They insist that there was a traffic accident
