Definitions for insists

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insists in·sist

Spelling: [in-sist]

IPA: /ɪnˈsɪst/

Insists is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in insists (iinssst).

Definitions for insists

verb (used with object)

1. to assert or maintain firmly:
2. to demand or persist in demanding:

verb (used without object)

1. to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.:
2. to lay emphasis in assertion:
3. to dwell with earnestness or emphasis (usually followed by on or upon):

Origin of insists

1580-90; Latin insistere to stand still on, persist in, equivalent to in- in-² + sistere to stand, make stand, reduplicated derivat

Examples for insists

He insists, however, that they have been "evolved" from something, or by some unknown process.

She must leave the banlieue, just as she insists to the school counselor, that she must go to high school.

Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”

He only insists that this natural fitness shall be intelligibly explained.

She insists, however, that she considers herself separate from victims of chronic abuse.

Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

Thrasymachus is pacified, but the intrepid Glaucon insists on continuing the argument.

A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.

Some answer or other the mind of man demands and insists on receiving.

But Theaetetus insists that they shall proceed to consider the doctrine of rest.