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resistant

adjective

  1. Having the capacity to withstand: immune, impervious, insusceptible, proof, resistive, unsusceptible. See resist/yield.
  2. Tending to resist, as an influence or idea: renitent, resisting, resistive. See resist/yield.

 
 
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The adjective has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
  Synonym: immune

Meaning #2: incapable of being affected

Meaning #3: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
  Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive

Meaning #4: incapable of absorbing or mixing with
  Synonym: repellent

 
Misspellings: resistant

Common misspelling(s) of resistant

  • resistent

 
 

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