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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

demanding or insisting;

e.g. She got up to see what the insistent knocking on the door was about.

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Similar Words

Coercive

Dogged

Hell-bent

Organic

Patient

Persistent

Pertinacious

Resistant

Tenacious

Unhesitating

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Opposite Words

Disloyal

Faithless

False

Fickle

Hesitant

Inconstant

Irresolute

Nonassertive

Noncritical

Nonemphatic

Perfidious

Traitorous

Treacherous

Yielding

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Related Words

Acute

Adamant

Aggressive

All-important

Assertive

Assured

Bullheaded

Burning

Certain

Compelling

Compulsory

Constant

Crying

Dedicated

Determined

Devoted

Dire

Dynamic

Emergent

Emphatic

Emphatically

Energetic

Essential

Essentially

Exigent

Faithful

Firm

Forced

Forceful

Full-blooded

Good

Hard

Hardheaded

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Imperative

Imperious

Implacable

Importunate

Incumbent

Indispensable

Indomitable

Indurate

Inextinguishable

Inflexible

Insatiable

Instant

Integral

Intent

Involuntary

Loyal

Mandatory

Mulish

Muscular

Must-have

Necessary

Needful

Nonelective

Obdurate

Obligatory

Obstinate

Opinionated

Peevish

Peremptory

Perverse

Pigheaded

Pleading

Positive

Prayerful

Pressing

Relentless

Required

Requisite

Resistant

Resolute

Resounding

Self-willed

Single-minded

Stanch

Staunch

Steadfast

Steady

Stern

Stiff-necked

Strenuous

Stubborn

Suppliant

Sure

True

Unappeasable

Unbending

Unconquerable

Unfaltering

Unflinching

Unhesitating

Unquenchable

Unregenerate

Unrelenting

Unslakable

Unwavering

Unyielding

Urgent

Vehement

Vehemently

Vigorous

Violent

Vital

Wayward

Willful

Wrongheaded

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