Resistant

What do we mean by resistant?

Capable of, offering, or showing resistance. Often used in combination. adjective

One that is resistant, especially a person active in a Resistance movement. noun

In botany, able to resist the attacks of parasites: applied to those plants which, because of some inherent property, are able to resist the attack of those parasites to which they are usually subject.

Making resistance; resisting.

One who or that which resists. noun

Same as resist, 2. noun

Making resistance; resisting. adjective

A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement. noun

A thing which resists. noun

That which makes resistance or offers opposition. adjective

That which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.. adjective

Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample. adjective

Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress adjective

Incapable of absorbing or mixing with adjective

Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) adjective

Impervious to being affected adjective

Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority adjective

A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.

A thing which resists.

Words that are spelled similarly to resistant:
resistant, resistance, assistant, hesitant, resultant, persistant, registrant, resiant, resisting, restant, unresistant, existant, resistin, resistate, insistant, resistants.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word resistant:
vancomycin, glyphosate, mildew, desiccation, herbicide, antibiotics, starch, abrasion, staphylococcus, penicillin, aureus, strains, weathering, antibiotic, corrosion, pests, elm, susceptible, blight, rot, pathogen, pathogens, unaffected, erosion, rust, bacteria, tolerant, fungal, alloys, varieties, chemotherapy, coating, withstand, beetle, immune, degradation, bacterial, parasites, drought, stainless, spores, eroded, malaria, fungus, oxidation, ambush, pest, resistance, tuberculosis, acids, insect, potato, alloy, chemicals, infection, viruses, diseases, virus, moisture, strain, sandstone, decay, frost, disease, genes, drugs, crop, fiber, leaf, radiation, crops, organisms, layers, infected, planted, survive, limestone, sensitive, thermal, acid, chemical, insects, rocks, hiv, heat, wheat, soil, corn, shock, treatment, layer, damage, therapy, compounds, materials, hybrid, breeding, steel, plants, gene.

Words that rhyme with resistant:
consistent, persistent, assistant, insistent, distant, inconsistent, existent, nonexistent, medical assistant, shop assistant, legal assistant, self-consistent, chief assistant, secretarial assistant, dental assistant.

Adjectives that are often used to describe resistant:
more, less, most, drought, least, bacteria, heat, highly, corrosion, acid, wear, antibiotic, frost, inherently, intrinsically, non, cold, durable, multidrug, peculiarly, solvent, fatigue, pest, singularly, earthquake, susceptible, stable, tough, stronger, sensitive, shock, tamper, wind, stress, steroid, weather, bacterial, abnormally, rust, herbicide, fold, pulmonary, chemical, mutant, temperature, staphylococcal, penicillin, quite, penicillinase, inflammatory, chloroquine, hardy, multiply, fire, intraocular, drouth, disease, persistent, fairly, pressure, lactamase, transgenic, homozygous, anxious, ovarian.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective resistant:
strains, varieties, organisms, cells, bacteria, mutants, materials, material, strain, plants, cases, aureus, tuberculosis, patients, lines, species, staphylococci, alloys, cultivars, rickets, infections, rocks, coatings, depression, spores, containers, forms, crops, rock, isolates, variety, variants, colonies, enterococci, line, clones, properties, surface, penicillins, glass, coating, disease, design, steels, steel, staphylococcus, individuals, structures, container, mice, bacilli, malaria, pathogens, penicillin, organism, mutant, infection, type, microorganisms, types, pneumoniae, layer, starch, hypertension, virus, populations, metal, alloy, genes, cancer, trees, construction, pneumococci, phenotype, syndrome, phosphatase, gloves, animals, qualities, metals, schizophrenia, beds, diabetes, genotypes, polymers, tumors, minerals, layers, rats, patient, finish.

Words that sound like resistant:
resistant, resistin, resistance, resistence, resident, resisting, resisted, unresistant, residente, existent, existant, reticent, restant, persistent, hesitant, persistant, air resistance, irresistance, assistant, insistent, insistant, assistent, visitant, president, resentment, residents, protestant, resultant, resistive, resist, resilient, recipient, resists, rewritten, resistor, resister, resistors, resistances, riston, remittent, resisters, wriston, nonresistant, rostand, preexistent.