Synonym: immune, insubordinate, repellent, resistive, tolerant. Similar words: resistance, assistant, resist, assistance, distant, equidistant, instantaneous, desist. Meaning: [rɪ'zɪstənt] adj. 1. relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) 2. able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress 3. impervious to being affected 4. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority 5. incapable of absorbing or mixing with.
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1. Mosquitoes are becoming resistant to insecticides.
2. A healthy diet creates a body resistant to disease.
3. These bacteria have mutated into forms that are resistant to certain drugs.
4. The more pesticides are used, the more resistant the insects become so the more pesticides have to be used. It's a vicious circle.
5. They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.
6. Elderly people are not always resistant to change.
7. Microfibre fabrics are both water resistant and windproof.
8. This new type of infection is resistant to antibiotics.
9. Some infections are now resistant to drugs.
10. Is this watch water resistant?
11. Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.
12. Why are you so resistant to change?
13. Many managers are resistant to change.
14. Many sorts of bacteria are resistant to penicillin.
15. Old varieties of rose can be less resistant to diseases.
16. Some people are very resistant to the idea of exercise.
17. be resistant to magnetization.
18. The durable high-impact plastic case is water resistant to 100 feet.
19. Thirteen strains were resistant to three or more antibiotics.
20. Manhattan's community planners are notoriously resistant to change.
21. From the start,[sentencedict.com] resistant organisms have appeared.
22. The brain is highly resistant to damage.
23. Plant resistant plants or use fungicides.
24. Plant tomato varieties resistant to nematodes.
25. A number of hazardous substances are resistant to biodegradation.
26. He is resistant to change, gullible and easily led.
27. These will have been pressure-impregnated, and will be resistant to damp and insect attack.
28. The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality; they are resistant to change.
29. C is the most intellectual and best informed, less impulsive than A and B, but very resistant to change.
30. Applied with fine steel wool, the wax can darken faded wood and provide a resistant finish.
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