resistant
/ɹəˈzɪstənt/
resistant noun: a person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
Noun
resistant (plural resistants)
- A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- A thing which resists.
Adjective
resistant (comparative more resistant, superlative most resistant)
- Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
- Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
- The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
- […] suggests the dauerlarva is resistant because of non-feeding and a more resistant cuticle. Examination of the dauerlarva cuticle by thin sectioning and electron micro[…]1975, Daniel McMahon, C. Fred Fox, Developmental Biology: Pattern Formation, Gene Regulation, Addison Wesley Longman
- Synonyms:
- sufferable, tolerant, patient
- Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
resistant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
resistant in Hindi
- resistant
- प्रतिरोधी pratirodhī
resistant in Tamil
- எதிர்ப்புச் சக்தி கொண்ட, தடுப்பாற்றலுடைய, எதிர்ப்புச் சக்தி, தடையுறு
resistant in Bengali
- সহ্যকারী, প্রতিহতকারী, বাধাদায়ক
resistant in Telugu
- రెసిస్టెంట్
More languagesFewer languages
- resistant in Malayalam
- ചെറുക്കുന്ന, പ്രതിരോധിക്കുന്ന, ദുഷ്പ്രവേശ്യം, നിരുദ്ധം
- resistant in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਤੀਰੋਧਕ
- resistant in Gujarati
- પ્રતિરોધક, પ્રતિકારક
- resistant in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିରୋଧୀ
- resistant in Nepali
- प्रतिरोधी
Examples of resistant in a sentence
- Some of the shopowners were resistant to the extortion, so the mafia did some persuasion.
- The ElGamal encryption system is resistant against chosen-plaintext attacks, but not against chosen-ciphertext attacks.
- This type of fastener is resistant to corrosion.
Synonyms of resistant
Forms of resistant
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | resistants |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more resistant |
| superlative | most resistant |
Origin of resistant
From French résistant; equivalent to resist + -ant.
Words formed from resistant
- acid-resistant
- antiresistant
- atheroresistant
- bioresistant
- chemoresistant
- coresistant
- corticoresistant
- crossresistant
- cryoresistant
- drought-resistant
- exoresistant
- famine resistant
- fire-resistant
- gastroresistant
- gastro-resistant
- heat resistant
- heat-resistant
- heteroresistant
- homoresistant
- hyperresistant
- immunoresistant
- magnetoresistant
- monoresistant
- multi-resistant
- multiresistant
- nonresistant
- osmoresistant
- oxidoresistant
- panresistant
- pentaresistant
- pharmacoresistant
- phosphoresistant
- photoresistant
- piezoresistant
- polyresistant
- quantum-resistant
- radioresistant
- resistantly
- resistant materials
- seroresistant
- superresistant
- thermoresistant
- thromboresistant
- unresistant
- water-resistant
Questions about resistant
- What does resistant mean?
- Resistant means a person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- What is resistant in Hindi?
- Resistant in Hindi is प्रतिरोधी (pratirodhī). See Resistant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is resistant?
- Resistant can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce resistant?
- Resistant is pronounced /ɹəˈzɪstənt/.
- What is the plural of resistant?
- The plural of resistant is resistants.
Words near resistant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: resistant (page history and authors); प्रतिरोधी (Hindi) (page history and authors); resistant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); resistant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); resistant (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); resistant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); resistant (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); resistant (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); resistant (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); resistant (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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