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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61. Women were most resistant to his strictures, claiming that when they served the goddess, they were never short of food.
62. Everywhere they came upon beetles, spiders and small lizards which scurried away as they pushed through the fibrous, resistant heather.
63. The seeds are not resistant to salt water and immersion kills them.
64. But when I have done this with Evan, he becomes very resistant, and I am not surprised.
65. Yet Mycobacterium leprae has proved resistant to attempts to grow it in the laboratory, seriously hampering efforts to make vaccines.
66. Diets rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids enhance the phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection and render the duodenal mucosa more resistant to acid.
67. This is not always a fair criticism, as they themselves may have been extremely resistant to being told anything.
68. But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice rather than the herbicide.
69. Few institutions in the western world have proved as resistant to change as the Commons.
70. Examples include anorexia nervosa, personality disorders, and patients with resistant depression.
71. They are therefore much less resistant than the techniques introduced in this chapter.
72. Look for toothpaste with fluoride which will help to make your teeth more resistant to attack.
73. But if the receptor lets in negative ions, the downstream neuron is made more resistant to firing.
74. Edward, why is your country so resistant, why are you so stubborn?
75. Leather is strong, abrasion resistant and will conform to the shape of the foot.
76. It dries surprisingly quickly, and providing it's laundered as directed on the label it's relatively crease resistant.
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77. The laws of logic, lying at the centre, are the most resistant of all.
78. Food products are more resistant to down turn than many other goods.
79. Decisions can be made quickly, and the system is highly resistant to hardware failure.
80. But Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill generally proved resistant to those calls.
81. That did kill many, but some mosquitoes became resistant: A superbug had evolved.
82. More to the point, as resistant strains emerge, the greater becomes our need for new antibiotics to cure sick people.
83. Choose long-lasting and highly water resistant products if they like to play in or around water.
84. It is one of the most resistant aquarium plants and should become very popular.
85. Sport-watches Divers will be pleased to hear that Fila have introduced a watch water resistant down to 330 feet.
86. Sometimes even negative change is interpreted as merely the last gasp of the resistant old order.
87. The cysts survive well in cold water and are even resistant to chlorination.
88. This brightens and hardens the surface of cutlery so it becomes more resistant to wear and it also removes minor scratches.
89. Second, the eggs are highly resistant to climatic extremes, and can survive for years on the ground.
90. An interesting consequence of this process is that the mice are then resistant to infection with exogenous mammary tumour viruses.
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