different between insistent vs importunate

English

Etymology

From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?st?nt/

Adjective

insistent (comparative more insistent, superlative most insistent)

1. (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
2. Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
3. Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
4. (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)

1. 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

1. third-person plural present indicative of insister
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of insister

Anagrams

• intestins

Latin

Verb

?nsistent

1. 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)

1. insistent

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Latin importune +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tj?n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?p??t???n?t/

Adjective

importunate (comparative more importunate, superlative most importunate)

1. (of a demand) Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.

2. (of a person) Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.

Related terms

• importune

Translations

Etymology 2

From French importuner (“to bother, disturb”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tju?ne?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tju?ne?t/

Verb

importunate (third-person singular simple present importunates, present participle importunating, simple past and past participle importunated)

1. (rare) To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
   • 1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G., Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173:

     All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again.

   • 1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects, Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43:

     Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.”

   • 1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in Sunset, Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece:

     It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else.

Translations

Anagrams

• permutation, premutation

Italian

Verb

importunate

1. second-person plural present indicative of importunare
2. second-person plural imperative of importunare
3. feminine plural of importunato