insistverb [ I ]
uk/ɪnˈsɪst/us/ɪnˈsɪst/B1 to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say:
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.
Please go first - I insist!
She insisted on seeing her lawyer.
More examples
- She's 85 now, but she will insist on doing all her own housework.
- The men at City Hall insist that big spending cuts are just not practical.
- The police insist that they are not relaxing their campaign against drugs.
- They insisted that all swear words be deleted from the article.
- She insisted on telling me every single detail of what they did to her in hospital.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stressing & emphasizing
- accent
- accentuate
- drive
- emphasis
- emphatic
- freaking
- fronting
- gloss
- hammer
- hammer sth home idiom
- howling
- impress sth on/upon sb
- place
- play
- play sth up
- point
- point sth out
- point sth up
- should
- underline
See more results »
Phrasal verb(s)
insist on doing sth