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Resistant   /rɪzˈɪstənt/  /rizˈɪstənt/   Listen
Resistant

adjective
1.
Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection).  Synonym: immune.
2.
Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress.  Synonym: tolerant.  "These fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided" , "The new hybrid is more resistant to drought"
3.
Impervious to being affected.  "Resistant to persuasion"
4.
Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.  Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive.
5.
Incapable of absorbing or mixing with.  Synonym: repellent.  "Plastic highly resistant to steam and water"



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"Resistant" Quotes from Famous Books



... size, is very hardy, and produces a quantity of fruit. Its slow growth, when young, has prevented its use as a stock on which to work improved varieties, but I have no doubt it would make a very hardy stock that would be distinctly disease-resistant. ...
— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson

... and if we are menaced, we have no help to expect, except from you. Florentin is a good boy, but he is weak and foolish. Mamma is like him in more than one respect, and as for me, although I am more resistant, I confess that, in the face of the law and the police, I should easily lose my head, like children who begin to scream when they are left in the dark. Is not the law, when you know nothing of it, a night of trouble, full of horrors, and ...
— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot

... building activities the Romans learned to make a cement so weather-resistant that many of their constructs are still usable two thousand years after the Romans built them. These and similar building operations made Rome one of the show places of the Graeco-Roman world. They also provided for the Romans ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... itself that roars in the chimney but the rush of air induced by it. The semi-explosion of flame is but for an instant, though constantly renewed, and its explosive impulse cannot carry its light products of combustion very far through stationary and resistant air. It is the induction of air carried with it by such semi-explosive impulse (under proper mechanical conditions) that is strange to our observation and understanding, and is the second factor in the phenomenon we are accounting for ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

... the very crockery was a light biscuit glazed in a vacuum, and weighed next to nothing. Where strength was needed there was the new Charlottenburg alloy, German steel as it was called, the toughest and most resistant metal ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells


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