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.

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

Common misspelling(s) of resistant

• resistent