Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Resister   Listen
Resister

noun
1.
Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take.  Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter.
2.
Someone who offers opposition.  Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer.



Related search:
passive resister


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Resister" Quotes from Famous Books



... do you mean?" answered Basil, staring also. "Have you turned Puritan or Passive Resister, or ...
— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton
... being led astray by a too servile adherence to any system.—WOLOWSKI. No system can be anything more than a history, not in the order of impression, but in the order of arrangement by analogy.—DAVY, Memoirs, 68. Avec der materiaux si nombreux et si importants, il fallait bien du courage pour resister a la tentation de faire un systeme. De Saussure eut ce courage, et nous en ferons le dernier trait et le trait principal de son eloge.—CUVIER, ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... puis resister au desir d'appeler votre bienveillante attention sur le dernier numero de la 'Revue des deux Mondes,' que je ne vous envoie pas, sachant que vous la recevez, ou notre excellent ami X. Raymond a traite ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton
... fait plutot oeuvre de Dieu que des hommes." Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 20. "L'impetuosite des peuples etait telle contre les images, qu'il n'etait possible aux hommes d'y resister." Ibid. ii. 23. ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird


Words linked to "Resister" :   dueller, Antichrist, obstructer, Luddite, controversialist, opposer, soul, resist, passive resister, mortal, enemy, person, eristic, withstander, foe, duellist, individual, duelist, stonewaller, dueler, agonist, foeman, somebody, opposition, naysayer, opponent, antagonist, disputant, someone, obstructionist


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com