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insistent
English
Etymology
From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st?nt/
Adjective
insistent (comparative more insistent, superlative most insistent)
- (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
- (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.
Derived terms
- insistently
Related terms
- insist
- insistence
Translations
References
- insistent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- tintiness
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?nsist?ns.
Adjective
insistent (masculine and feminine plural insistents)
- insistent
Derived terms
- insistència
- insistentment
Related terms
- insistir
Further reading
- “insistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “insistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “insistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “insistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Verb
insistent
- third-person plural present indicative of insister
- third-person plural present subjunctive of insister
Anagrams
- intestins
Latin
Verb
?nsistent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ?nsist?
Romanian
Etymology
From French insistente.
Adjective
insistent m or n (feminine singular insistent?, masculine plural insisten?i, feminine and neuter plural insistente)
- insistent
Declension
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fixed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?kst/
- Rhymes: -?kst
Verb
fixed
- simple past tense and past participle of fix
Adjective
fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)
- Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
- fixed assets
- I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- Stationary.
- Attached; affixed.
- Chemically stable.
- Supplied with what one needs.
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- (law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
- a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Repaired
Synonyms
- (not able to be changed, staying the same): stable, immobile
Antonyms
- (not able to be changed, staying the same): mobile
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- broken
- crooked
- bribe
Anagrams
- defix
fixed From the web:
- what fixed the great depression
- what fixed the articles of confederation
- what fixed rate means
- what fixed political machines
- what fixed expenses
- what fixed income investments
- what fixed and variable cost
- what fixed the dust bowl
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