Resistant
[rɪ'zɪstənt]
Definition
(adj.) impervious to being affected; 'resistant to the effects of heat'; 'resistant to persuasion' .
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Making resistance; resisting.
(n.) One who, or that which, resists.
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Examples
- And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There were two opposites, his will and the resistant Matter of the earth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Each of them felt proudly resistant, and neither looked at the other, while they awaited Sir James's entrance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I felt my fingers work and my hands interlock: I felt, tooan inward courage, warm and resistant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But he remained mutely resistant, and she added: What are you going to do? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There was nothing for it now, but contemptuous, resistant indifference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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