resistant

[ ri-zis-tuhnt ]

adjective

1. exhibiting or offering resistance; resisting (often used in combination):

   stain-resistant;

   resistant to change.

noun

1. a person or thing that resists.

Other Words From

• re·sistant·ly adverb
• anti·re·sistant adjective noun
• anti·re·sistant·ly adverb
• unre·sistant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of resistant¹

1590–1600; < Middle French resistant, present participle of resister to resist; -ant

Example Sentences

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.

From Quanta Magazine

The wheel is made from rust-resistant, 430 stainless steel that is going to stay sharp longer.

From Popular-Science

It’s made of high-quality bamboo which is covered in a thin layer of lacquer to keep it water-resistant.

From Popular-Science

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.

From Outside 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.

From Fortune

The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.

From The Daily Beast

Next, Borlaug helped develop more productive and drought-resistant strains of rice that became adapted widely in Asia.

From The Daily Beast

And what could her campaign achieve among the Americans most resistant to expanded end-of-life options?

From The Daily Beast

And what is it about LEGOs that has made them particularly resistant to social change?

From The Daily Beast

Yet while sanctions like these can be painful, they can also make Putin more adamantly resistant to withdrawal from Ukraine.

From The Daily Beast

In many places the streams of the Big Caney system flow over resistant limestone members, which form a bedrock bottom.

From Project Gutenberg

I remember discussing the matter with a pacifist friend of mine, an out-and-out religious non-resistant.

From Project Gutenberg

His face was greenish from the effects of the special, contamination resistant mixture that they were breathing.

From Project Gutenberg

Language is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena.

From Project Gutenberg

Its digging was a steady and progressive victory over sullen and resistant nature.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• immune
• invulnerable