Synonyms for Insist:

• n.

  •
  • dwell on,
  • send for,
  • want,
  • ask for,
  • emphasize.
  •
  • order,
  • recap,
  • rattle off,
  • command,
  • rephrase,
  • ask,
  • put words into someone's mouth,
  • require,
  • repeat,
  • echo,
  • request,
  • quote,
  • restate,
  • paraphrase.
  •
  • continue.
  •
  • press,
  • seek.
  •
  • cry out for,
  • exact,
  • requisition,
  • call for,
  • demand.
  •
  • stop.
  •assert (noun)
  • assert.

• v.

  •affirm (verb)
  • confirm,
  • say so,
  • state,
  • okay,
  • attest,
  • cinch,
  • insist,
  • certify,
  • lock up,
  • testify,
  • swear on bible,
  • put on ice,
  • pronounce,
  • avow,
  • nail down,
  • rubber-stamp,
  • have a lock on,
  • clinch,
  • set,
  • predicate,
  • vouch,
  • cross heart,
  • avouch,
  • witness,
  • profess,
  • ratify,
  • guarantee,
  • swear up and down.
  •communication (verb)
  • take a firm stand,
  • Importune.
  •declare (verb)
  • cite,
  • show,
  • convey,
  • confess,
  • announce,
  • enunciate,
  • manifest,
  • inform,
  • advocate,
  • notify,
  • publish,
  • render,
  • validate,
  • proclaim,
  • blaze,
  • sound,
  • promulgate,
  • stress,
  • reveal,
  • demonstrate,
  • acknowledge,
  • argue,
  • pass,
  • propound,
  • disclose.
  •exhort (verb)
  • caution,
  • encourage,
  • bid,
  • counsel,
  • advise,
  • admonish,
  • spur,
  • goad,
  • prod,
  • stimulate,
  • incite,
  • preach,
  • prompt,
  • propel,
  • persuade,
  • beseech,
  • egg on,
  • prick,
  • plead.
  •force (verb)
  • coerce,
  • drive,
  • compel,
  • restrict,
  • wring,
  • necessitate,
  • contract,
  • blackmail,
  • fix,
  • drag,
  • wrest,
  • make,
  • impel,
  • enforce,
  • strong-arm,
  • cause,
  • move,
  • apply,
  • impress,
  • bear down,
  • conscript,
  • oblige,
  • burden,
  • choke,
  • occasion,
  • bind,
  • overcome,
  • inflict,
  • draft,
  • extort,
  • limit,
  • constrain.
  •insist (verb)
  • reiterate,
  • vow,
  • stand firm,
  • swear,
  • take a stand,
  • hold,
  • be firm,
  • asseverate,
  • lay down the law.
  •invite (verb)
  • court,
  • vamp,
  • entice,
  • draw,
  • beg,
  • issue,
  • lure,
  • lead,
  • attract,
  • ply,
  • supplicate,
  • tempt,
  • prevail on,
  • propose,
  • countenance,
  • welcome,
  • provoke,
  • woo,
  • toll,
  • inveigle,
  • allure,
  • bring on,
  • pray,
  • suggest,
  • invitation.
  •maintain (verb)
  • champion,
  • rectify,
  • right,
  • back,
  • correct.
  •pester (verb)
  • drives up the wall,
  • gat on one nerves,
  • be-leaguered,
  • gat on nerves,
  • gets in ones hair,
  • getting on one's nerves,
  • get in one hair,
  • gets ones nerves,
  • gotten in one hair,
  • gotten one's nerves,
  • be devils,
  • be devil,
  • driving the wall,
  • gotten in hair,
  • get ones hair,
  • drives crazy,
  • gat in one hair,
  • get ones nerves,
  • driving wall,
  • be devilling,
  • drives wall,
  • gat ones nerves,
  • gets hair,
  • wert at,
  • get one's hair,
  • be-devils,
  • got ones nerves,
  • art at,
  • getting in one hair,
  • be deviling,
  • drove the wall,
  • be deviled,
  • gat in hair,
  • re-minded,
  • re-minds,
  • drive the wall,
  • getting ones hair,
  • got one's nerves,
  • gets in one hair,
  • gat hair,
  • was at,
  • gets one nerves,
  • gotten hair,
  • gotten nerves,
  • drave crazy,
  • were at,
  • re-mind,
  • got in one's hair,
  • be-deviled,
  • got ones hair,
  • gat on ones nerves,
  • messed with,
  • be leaguer,
  • be-devilled,
  • getting hair,
  • drive wall,
  • gat nerves,
  • gets one's hair,
  • drive up wall,
  • getting one nerves,
  • driving up wall,
  • wast at,
  • gets on nerves,
  • get in ones hair,
  • be leaguers,
  • gets nerves,
  • get on one nerves,
  • gotten one nerves,
  • got on one's nerves,
  • messes with,
  • got one nerves,
  • drove crazy,
  • got in hair,
  • gat ones hair,
  • gotten to,
  • gotten on one's nerves,
  • got on ones nerves,
  • gotten ones hair,
  • gets in hair,
  • got on one nerves,
  • gets ones hair,
  • gat to,
  • be-devilling,
  • getting one's nerves,
  • gets one's nerves,
  • gotten in ones hair,
  • drives up wall,
  • getting on ones nerves,
  • got in ones hair,
  • getting on one nerves,
  • getting in ones hair,
  • be-deviling,
  • gotten on one nerves,
  • getting in hair,
  • gat one's nerves,
  • drave wall,
  • driving up the wall,
  • is at,
  • re minding,
  • got hair,
  • be-leaguering,
  • drave up wall,
  • gat on one's nerves,
  • re-minding,
  • be-leaguer,
  • gotten one hair,
  • gotten in one's hair,
  • getting in one's hair,
  • getting on nerves,
  • gets on ones nerves,
  • got one's hair,
  • drave up the wall,
  • be-leaguers,
  • messing with,
  • gotten one's hair,
  • re minded,
  • am at,
  • gets on one nerves,
  • drove wall,
  • wrought on,
  • gat in one's hair,
  • drave the wall,
  • gets in one's hair,
  • drives the wall,
  • re minds,
  • gotten ones nerves,
  • be devilled,
  • get nerves,
  • getting one's hair,
  • got nerves,
  • got in one hair,
  • gotten on nerves,
  • driving crazy,
  • are at,
  • got one hair,
  • getting one hair,
  • be leaguering,
  • be leaguered,
  • being at,
  • get one nerves,
  • get one hair,
  • gat one nerves,
  • get on ones nerves,
  • gat one's hair,
  • gets on one's nerves,
  • be-devil,
  • getting nerves,
  • drove up wall,
  • getting ones nerves,
  • re mind,
  • get one's nerves,
  • works on,
  • gat in ones hair,
  • got on nerves,
  • get hair,
  • gat one hair,
  • gets one hair,
  • gotten on ones nerves,
  • drove up the wall.
  •pressure (verb)
  • leans on,
  • leaned on,
  • twisting arm,
  • twists arm,
  • twisted arm,
  • leant on,
  • pushed around,
  • wrought over,
  • politicked,
  • works over.
  •protest (verb)
  • re-volt,
  • made stink,
  • making stink,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • puts a fight,
  • back talked,
  • re volts,
  • constates,
  • back-talks,
  • puts up fight,
  • puts fight,
  • inveighs against,
  • pro-tested,
  • making a stink,
  • saying no,
  • putting up fight,
  • makes stink,
  • backtalked,
  • backtalking,
  • being against,
  • ex postulating,
  • thumbsing down,
  • dis-agrees,
  • dis agree,
  • ex-postulates,
  • ex postulates,
  • putting a fight,
  • am displeased by,
  • pro-testing,
  • are displeased by,
  • makes a stink,
  • putting fight,
  • ex postulated,
  • re-volts,
  • pro tested,
  • was against,
  • said no,
  • dis-agree,
  • ex cept,
  • constated,
  • was displeased by,
  • put fight,
  • are against,
  • were against,
  • re volt,
  • pro testing,
  • is displeased by,
  • putting up a fight,
  • dis agrees,
  • ex postulate,
  • art against,
  • ex-postulated,
  • ex-postulating,
  • dis-agreed,
  • make stink,
  • wert against,
  • ex-cept,
  • put a fight,
  • wast against,
  • back talking,
  • thumbses down,
  • am against,
  • thumbsed down,
  • inveighing against,
  • wast displeased by,
  • dis agreeing,
  • being displeased by,
  • inveighed against,
  • puts up a fight,
  • takes exception,
  • constating,
  • sounds off,
  • took exception,
  • were displeased by,
  • made a stink,
  • sounding off,
  • back-talked,
  • dis agreed,
  • ex-postulate,
  • wert displeased by,
  • sounded off,
  • back-talking.
  •speak out/speak up (verb)
  • has say,
  • hath ones say,
  • have ones say,
  • hadst one's say,
  • hast say,
  • letted voice be heard,
  • speaks mind,
  • speaking loudly,
  • spoke ones mind,
  • spake ones mind,
  • hast one's say,
  • having say,
  • make heard,
  • spoke one mind,
  • speaking ones mind,
  • had one say,
  • saying loud and clear,
  • hath say,
  • had say,
  • spake one mind,
  • speaks one's mind,
  • letting voice be heard,
  • making oneself heard,
  • hast ones say,
  • made heard,
  • had one's say,
  • having one's say,
  • making heard,
  • speaks one mind,
  • speak one mind,
  • said loud clear,
  • makes oneself heard,
  • spake loudly,
  • has ones say,
  • speaks ones mind,
  • spake mind,
  • saying loud clear,
  • makes heard,
  • spake one's mind,
  • hast one say,
  • standing up for,
  • spoke mind,
  • has one's say,
  • have say,
  • said loud and clear,
  • haddest ones say,
  • hath one say,
  • says loud and clear,
  • speaking one mind,
  • have one say,
  • speak mind,
  • having ones say,
  • made oneself heard,
  • haddest one's say,
  • spoke one's mind,
  • speak ones mind,
  • haddest one say,
  • speaks loudly,
  • made plain,
  • hadst one say,
  • had ones say,
  • has one say,
  • hadst say,
  • making plain,
  • speaking one's mind,
  • says loud clear,
  • having one say,
  • hadst ones say,
  • haddest say,
  • speaking mind,
  • lets voice be heard,
  • say loud clear,
  • spoke loudly,
  • makes plain,
  • spake out,
  • hath one's say.
  •will (verb)
  • de-crees,
  • in-tends,
  • de cree,
  • re solves,
  • in tend,
  • decided on,
  • re solve,
  • in-tend,
  • de-cree,
  • in-tending,
  • re-solves,
  • re-solve,
  • re-solved,
  • de crees,
  • in tending,
  • in tends,
  • re-solving,
  • decides on,
  • de-creed,
  • deciding on,
  • de creed,
  • in tended,
  • in-tended.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • implore,
  • chase up,
  • order up,
  • entreat,
  • call away.
  •
  • impose,
  • square with,
  • persevere,
  • call out.
  •
  • call-in.
  •
  • put in,
  • get in,
  • urge.
  •
  • petition,
  • call on,
  • summon.
  •
  • commission.
  •
  • call.
  •affirm
  • rubberstamp,
  • rubber stamped,
  • locked up,
  • rubber-stamps,
  • ice,
  • Cinched,
  • locking up,
  • Cinching,
  • locks up,
  • nailed down,
  • iced.
  •contend
  • go at,
  • fly in face of,
  • set to,
  • have at,
  • have bone to pick,
  • lock horns with,
  • sticks to,
  • ripping,
  • had at,
  • jumped on,
  • mix it up,
  • jump on,
  • went at,
  • sock it to one,
  • stick to,
  • stick it to,
  • lace into,
  • let have it,
  • light into,
  • stuck to,
  • put up argument.
  •protest
  • cry out,
  • cries out,
  • back-talk,
  • put up a fight,
  • take exception,
  • taking exception,
  • make a stink,
  • says no,
  • is against,
  • crying out,
  • be against,
  • say no,
  • cried out,
  • be displeased by,
  • Constate,
  • inveigh against,
  • sound off,
  • put up fight.

Paraphrases for Insist:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    insists.

• Independent

  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are, AM, persist, stress, emphasise, urge, demand, reiterate, exist, require, argue, point, ask, emphasize, claim, push, focus, stick, stand, request, requests, necessitate, press.
  • Verb, base form
    lay, persist, stress, emphasise, urge, demand, reiterate, underline, dwell, exist, highlight, require, argue, adhere, point, ask, emphasize, claim, abide, push, focus, stipulate, restate, stick, impose, stand, request, necessitate, reaffirm, press, re-emphasize.

• Other Related

  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    assert, maintain, underscore, call.
  • Verb, base form
    assert, maintain, underscore, call.

Antonyms for Insist:

• v.

  • affirm
    deny, veto, negate, nullify.
  • claim
    disclaim, question.
  • contend
    cede, surrender, give in, give up.
  • declare
    disavow, retract.
  • force
    let go.
  • insist
    forget, endure, tolerate.
  • invite
    reject.
  • maintain
    desert, condemn, discard.
  • order and expect; claim
    reply.
  • persist
    cease, stop, leave, quit.
  • Other antonyms:
    contradict, abandon, counter, disown, negative, dispute, gainsay, repudiate, disprove, refute, rebut, confute, challenge.

Hypernym for Insist:

• v.

  • communication
    besiege, stand fast, assert, stand pat, maintain, asseverate, stand firm, hold firm.

Hyponym for Insist:

• v.

  • cognition
    posit, postulate.
  • communication
    implore, beg, pray.