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insistent

/ɪnˈsɪst(ə)nt/

US pronunciation
American sound/ɪnˈsɪst(ə)nt/
ɪnˈsɪstənt
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3 syllables
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2nd syllable stress
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Schwa vowel
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ɪn - ˈsɪstənt -> insistent

Myanmar meaning

(adj) စွဲစွဲမြဲမြဲ ဇွတ်တရွတ် အတင်းအကျပ်နိုင်သော။

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insist /Çn'sÇst/ v

၁။ ~ (on sth) အပြင်းအထန် တောင်းဆိုသည်။ မရအရ တောင်းဆိုသည်။ ‘You really must tell him!’ ‘All right, if you insist. ’ ❍ I insist on your taking/ insist that you take immediate action to put this right.
၂။ ~ on/ upon (doing) sth မရမကတောင်းဆိုသည်။ I always insist on/ upon wholemeal bread. ❍ (fig ) She will insist on getting up early and playing her radio very loud (ie She always does this, causing annoyance). [ဥ] သူဟာ အစဉ်တစိုက် စောစောထပြီး ရေဒီယိုကို ကျယ်ကျယ်လောင်လောင် ဖွင့်တော့တာပဲ။
၃။ ~ (on sth) ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာ ပြောသည်။ မလျှော့ တမ်းပြောသည်။ She kept insisting on her innocence/ insisting that she was innocent. ❍ ‘But we have the right to stay!’ Laura insisted.
❏ insistent /-ǝnt/ adj
၁။ ~ (about/ on/ upon sth); ~ (that…) မရမကတောင်းဆိုသော။ ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာ ပြောသော။ မလျှော့သော။ She didn't want to go but her brother was insistent. ❍ They were insistent on having a proper contract. ❍ He was most insistent that he never used the word ‘traitor’.
၂။ ထပ်တလဲလဲ တောင်းဆိုသော။ ကျယ်ကျယ်လောင်လောင် မြည်သော။ insistent demands for higher wages ❍ the insistent horn phrase in the third movement.
❏ insistence /-ǝns/ n [U] ~ (on/ upon sth); (that…) မရမက တောင်းဆိုခြင်း။ their insistence on stricd standards of behaviour ❍ At her insistence the matter was dropped. insistently adv

More examples
  • You must see a doctor immediately – I insist.
  • [insist (that)] : She insisted that we stay at her house instead of a hotel.
  • [insist on] : Some companies insist on staff undergoing regular medical checks.
  • [insist (that)] : The school insists that it is doing everything it can to cooperate.
  • [insist on] : He has insisted on his innocence from the beginning.
Synonyms
be adamant, be firm, not take no for an answer, persist, be resolute, persevere, assert, asseverate, aver, claim, contend, demand, enforce, hold, importune, lay down the law, maintain, press, press for, reiterate, repeat, request, require, stand firm, stick up for, stipulate, swear, take a stand, urge, vow
Antonyms
abandon, deny, desert, endure, forget, reply, tolerate
Cross references
be adamantbe firmnot take no for an answerpersistbe resolutepersevereassertasseverateaverclaimcontenddemandenforceholdimportunelay down the lawmaintainpresspress forreiteraterepeatrequestrequirestand firmstick up forstipulatesweartake a stand
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