Learning Center

Dictionary

Type a word in English or Spanish. English is blue, Spanish is rose. Tap any line to hear it.

insist

English

  1. 🔊 postulate positively and assertively
    “The letter asserts a free society”
  2. 🔊 be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
    “I must insist!”
  3. 🔊 beg persistently and urgently
    “I importune you to help them”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 insistir to insist
  2. 🔊 intimar to insist, order, command
  3. 🔊 porfiar to insist, persist; persevere
  4. 🔊 demandar to insist, ask (for something), request

Similar words

assert importune take a firm stand advocate affirm allege announce annunciate argue assert assever asseverate aver avouch avow blandish brook no denial cajole call for call on call upon coax command contend