Word Meanings - UNRESISTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.

Related words: (words related to UNRESISTED)

• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• RESIST
  1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud.
• RESISTLESS
  1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness,
• RESISTANCE
  The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through
• RESISTING
  Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.
• RESISTANCE FRAME
  A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
• RESISTIBILITY
  1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness. 2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke.
• RESISTER
  One who resists.
• RESISTIVE
  Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.
• UNRESISTIBLE
  Irresistible. W. Temple.
• RESISTIBLE
  Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.
• RESISTFUL
  Making much resistance.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• IRRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission.
• NONRESISTANT
  Making no resistance.
• NONRESISTING
  Not making resistance.
• IRRESISTIBLY
  In an irrestible manner.
• NONRESISTANCE
  The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.