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  • adj.antagonistic
  • adj.impervious
  • adj.opposing

synonyms for resistant

  • contrary
  • defiant
  • disobedient
  • opposing
  • rebellious
  • unyielding
See also synonyms for: resistantly / unresistant
  • immune
  • invulnerable
  • protected
  • repellent
On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to resistant, such as: contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, and unyielding.

antonyms for resistant

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  • receptive
  • susceptible
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How to use resistant in a sentence

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.
AN UNEXPECTED TWIST LIGHTS UP THE SECRETS OF TURBULENCEDAVID H. FREEDMANSEPTEMBER 3, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The wheel is made from rust-resistant, 430 stainless steel that is going to stay sharp longer.
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It’s made of high-quality bamboo which is covered in a thin layer of lacquer to keep it water-resistant.
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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.
THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF MUSCLE CRAMPSALEX HUTCHINSONSEPTEMBER 1, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
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.
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The egg parents’ history with antibiotics has raised concerns that egg releases might encourage the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOES HAVE BEEN OK’D FOR A FIRST U.S. TEST FLIGHTSUSAN MILIUSAUGUST 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
The discovery was celebrated, and his method of breeding for resistant plants is still widely used today.
OUR GENES MAY EXPLAIN SEVERITY OF COVID-19 AND OTHER INFECTIONSMONIQUE BROUILLETTEJULY 27, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The first hint that antibiotic-resistant bacteria in livestock can jump to humans came in 1976, when scientists found higher levels of such bacteria in the guts of farmers who fed antibiotics to chickens than in those farmers’ neighbors.
50 YEARS AGO, SCIENTISTS FIRST INVESTIGATED ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN LIVESTOCKJONATHAN LAMBERTJUNE 26, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Those logical qubits become the error-resistant qubits of the final computer.
TO LIVE UP TO THE HYPE, QUANTUM COMPUTERS MUST REPAIR THEIR ERROR PROBLEMSEMILY CONOVERJUNE 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
In many places the streams of the Big Caney system flow over resistant limestone members, which form a bedrock bottom.
FISHES OF CHAUTAUQUA, COWLEY AND ELK COUNTIES, KANSASARTIE L. METCALF
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WORDS RELATED TO RESISTANT

  • blind
  • closed-minded
  • deaf
  • intolerant
  • narrow-minded
  • obstinate
  • pigheaded
  • resistant
  • rigid
  • shortsighted
  • stubborn
  • unpersuadable
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