resistant
About 11.22 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- noun A thing which resists.
- adjective Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
- adjective Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
- adjective Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
Similar words
repellent defiant insubordinate immune imperviable impervious unsusceptible insusceptible nonabsorbent nonabsorptive
Often followed by
to and strains than varieties organisms bacteria mutants materials
Word family
resistants
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