Adjective
- 1. insistent, repetitive, continual (vs. sporadic)
- usage: repetitive and persistent; "the bluejay's insistent cry"
- 2. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant, imperative (vs. beseeching)
- usage: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
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