Word Meanings - RESISTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making resistance; resisting. -- n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESISTANT)

• Insubordinate
• Resistant
• recalcitrant
• rebellious
• undutiful
• refractory
• Solid
• Hard
• firm
• compact
• resistant
• dense
• substantial
• weighty
• strong
• valid
• just
• sound
• impenetrable
• stable
• cubic

Related words: (words related to RESISTANT)

• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• SUBSTANTIALS
  Essential parts. Ayliffe.
• CUBIC; CUBICAL
  Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;