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resistant
[ ri-zis-tuhnt ]
adjective
- exhibiting or offering resistance; resisting (often used in combination):
stain-resistant;
resistant to change.
noun
- a person or thing that resists.
Other Words From
- re·sistant·ly adverb
- anti·re·sistant adjective noun
- anti·re·sistant·ly adverb
- unre·sistant adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of resistant1
Example Sentences
The question of whether some form of that law might apply to real-world fluids and gases remained stubbornly resistant to all analysis and experiment.
The wheel is made from rust-resistant, 430 stainless steel that is going to stay sharp longer.
It’s made of high-quality bamboo which is covered in a thin layer of lacquer to keep it water-resistant.
There’s a bit of evidence from a HotShot-funded study published by Penn State researchers in 2017 that this jolt to the nerves makes your muscles a little more cramp-resistant and shortens the duration of cramps stimulated in the lab.
A decade or so ago, David Brenner, a professor of radiation biophysics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York began thinking about the problem of drug-resistant bacteria.
The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.
Next, Borlaug helped develop more productive and drought-resistant strains of rice that became adapted widely in Asia.
And what could her campaign achieve among the Americans most resistant to expanded end-of-life options?
And what is it about LEGOs that has made them particularly resistant to social change?
Yet while sanctions like these can be painful, they can also make Putin more adamantly resistant to withdrawal from Ukraine.
In many places the streams of the Big Caney system flow over resistant limestone members, which form a bedrock bottom.
I remember discussing the matter with a pacifist friend of mine, an out-and-out religious non-resistant.
His face was greenish from the effects of the special, contamination resistant mixture that they were breathing.
Language is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena.
Its digging was a steady and progressive victory over sullen and resistant nature.
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