Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to insist
Participle: insisted
Gerund: insisting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | insist |
| you | insist |
| he;she;it | insists |
| we | insist |
| you | insist |
| they | insist |
Perfect
| I | have insisted |
| you | have insisted |
| he;she;it | has insisted |
| we | have insisted |
| you | have insisted |
| they | have insisted |
Past
| I | insisted |
| you | insisted |
| he;she;it | insisted |
| we | insisted |
| you | insisted |
| they | insisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had insisted |
| you | had insisted |
| he;she;it | had insisted |
| we | had insisted |
| you | had insisted |
| they | had insisted |
Future
| I | will insist |
| you | will insist |
| he;she;it | will insist |
| we | will insist |
| you | will insist |
| they | will insist |
Future Perfect
| I | will have insisted |
| you | will have insisted |
| he;she;it | will have insisted |
| we | will have insisted |
| you | will have insisted |
| they | will have insisted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | insist |
| you | insist |
| he;she;it | insist |
| we | insist |
| you | insist |
| they | insist |
Perfect
| I | have insisted |
| you | have insisted |
| he;she;it | have insisted |
| we | have insisted |
| you | have insisted |
| they | have insisted |
Imperfect
| I | insisted |
| you | insisted |
| he;she;it | insisted |
| we | insisted |
| you | insisted |
| they | insisted |
Pluperfect
| I | had insisted |
| you | had insisted |
| he;she;it | had insisted |
| we | had insisted |
| you | had insisted |
| they | had insisted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would insist |
| you | would insist |
| he;she;it | would insist |
| we | would insist |
| you | would insist |
| they | would insist |
Perfect
| I | would have insisted |
| you | would have insisted |
| he;she;it | would have insisted |
| we | would have insisted |
| you | would have insisted |
| they | would have insisted |
Imperative
| you | insist |
| we | Let's insist |
| you | insist |
Verbs conjugated like 'insist'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'insist'
inlist,
absist,
assist,
consist,
desist,
enlist,
enmist,
incest,
incise,
incyst,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
2. Compare typologically from the same PIE root Bulgarian настоявам (nastojavam), Russian наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ). See: Latin '
īnsistō', Bulgarian '
настоявам', Russian '
наста́ивать'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] all the motions of tending it, and giving it medicine; she then put it carefully to bed, and placed a bottle of hot water to its feet, laughing all the time most heartily. When I came home, she insisted upon my going to see it, and feel its pulse; and when I told her to put a blister on its back, she seemed to enjoy it amazingly, and almost screamed with delight.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ It's very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare, ” said the lady, “ to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I 've been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there's been such a tumult made ever since you came, I 'm half dead. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Why do you insist that I shall believe such a cruel thing, Eva ? ” said her father.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] get through the necessary formalities. Meantime, he attached himself to Tom more and more, every day. In all the wide world, there was nothing that seemed to remind him so much of Eva; and he would insist on keeping him constantly about him, and, fastidious and unapproachable as he was with regard to his deeper feelings, he almost thought aloud to Tom. Nor would any one have wondered at it, who had [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Long before his wounds were healed, Legree insisted that he should be put to the regular field-work; and then came day after day of pain and weariness, aggravated by every kind of injustice and indignity that the ill-will of a mean and malicious mind [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Chloe had pertinaciously insisted that the very bills in which her wages had been paid should be preserved, to show her husband, in memorial of her capability. And Mrs. Shelby had readily consented to humor her in the request.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I don't want them here. Tell them it's inconvenient. I said it wasn't necessary, but they insisted.
(Voor de meisjes)