resistant
Speech parts
1. resistant - Noun
2. resistant - Adjective
3. resistant - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Making resistance; resisting.
One who, or that which, resists.
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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
A man of character is resistant to temptation.