Resistant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESISTANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who or thing which resists; specifically a member of a resistance movement, also RESISTENT
• One who, or that which, resists.
• person or thing that resists
ADJECTIVE:
• making resistance
• offering resistance to something or someone
• denoting starch that is not easily broken down by enzymes within the body and is therefore minimally absorbed during digestion
• characterized by or showing resistance
• Making resistance; resisting.
• relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
• impervious to being affected
• disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
• incapable of absorbing or mixing with
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• giving, capable of, or exhibiting resistance —often used in combination

Words related to RESISTANT

resistants10 resistent9

Words that contain RESISTANT

resistants10 unresistant11 nonresistant12 nonresistants13 radioresistant15

How to use RESISTANT in a sentence

• Some immutable power is opposed to my will, and I go slowly forward, unwilling and resistant.
• There is no joy comparable to the making of a friend, and the more resistant the material the greater the triumph.
• The vegetable debris thus transformed, but still resistant and elastic, were the ones that were petrified in the mineral waters or covered with sand and clay.
• Not only are some species more resistant than others to all poisons, but there is a wide variation in the amount of immunity each displays to any given venom.
• No species of chestnut tree is entirely immune from this disease, though some species are highly resistant.
• The Japanese and Spanish varieties appear to be highly resistant, but are not immune.
• He finds a concentration of certain of the more resistant substances of the granite arising from the loss of the less resistant.
• But it will put and keep your herd in such fine condition that the individuals will be more resistant and will not as readily contract cholera or other germ diseases.
• The Korean chestnut does not blight quite so readily as the American chestnut, and certain individuals are fairly blight resistant.
• As the trade-winds were blowing quite stiffly in their faces, John, who was at the throttle, determined to mount high enough to overcome their most resistant effects.
• Many people are resistant to accepting authority of one kind or another, and eventually distance themselves from circumstances that require it.
• They become resistant to the suit of men who are of ordinary economic status.
• The Negro is strongly resistant to these and can live where the white man dies.
• Bixby, has asked me to tell you about the native chestnut trees in the vicinity of New York City which I have found to be resistant to the destructive bark disease.
• During the campaign in Pennsylvania against the bark disease, scouts had been on the lookout for immune or resistant trees, but without result.
• Another person may not be affected at all, that is, he is totally resistant or immune.
• It seemed as if the whole tree was getting a new kind of bark, and yet this same character appears in all of the highly resistant trees.
• At first I was unable to account for the grouping of the trees, for I had expected to find immune or resistant trees singly, here and there.
• In the meantime we can all help by being on the lookout for resistant native trees.
• It would be very difficult to find a tree which is entirely immune but there are some trees which are more resistant than others.
• And the lock on this door had been strangely resistant.
• They have for this reason been highly resistant to receiving the linguistic impress of the external cultural experiences of their speakers.
• The truth is that women are resistant to so-called beauty in men for the simple and sufficient reason that such beauty is chiefly imaginary.
• It has also been discovered that some individuals who are troubled with faulty elimination digest this cellulose, and only the more resistant, like bran, is not absorbed.
• No other living organism is so resistant to changes in environment as is man, and to this resistance he owes his supremacy.
• Occasionally broad reaches of the river grew narrower and wider again as the soil had proven soft or more resistant and the water had spread or had cut out a deep channel.

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