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What does insistent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word insistent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
  2. Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
  3. Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
  4. (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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Local authority chiefs are insistent that the characterisation of councils as wasteful bureaucracies is wrong.
But I wasn't surprised that the insistent commercial jingles of her childhood remained embedded in her brain.
Joe tries to shake him off, but Jed stalks him relentlessly, becoming ever more insistent.
Two other monitors off to one side emit changing flat colours from their screens, and a dull but insistent techno-type soundtrack.
But my Uncle was insistent and kept on about it being bizarre me wearing it.
The concept is established from the outset with an insistent ticking sound that persists throughout, soon joined by a whomping techno beat.

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