Usually means: Able to withstand or oppose.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. resistant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resistant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resistant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. resistant: Vocabulary.com
  5. Resistant, resistant: Wordnik
  6. resistant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. resistant: Wiktionary
  8. resistant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. resistant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. resistant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. resistant: Dictionary.com
  12. resistant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Resistant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Resistant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. resistant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. resistant: Rhymezone
  17. Resistant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. resistant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. resistant: Free Dictionary
  20. resistant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. resistant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resistant: Legal dictionary
  2. resistant: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resistant: Encyclopedia

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  2. resistant: Medical dictionary

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  1. resistant: Idioms

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(Note: See resistants as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
adjective:  (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.

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