nonresistant

non·re·sis·tant

adjective \-tənt\

Definition of NONRESISTANT

: not resistant; specifically : susceptible to the effects of a deleterious agent (as an insecticide, a pathogen, or an extreme environmental condition)

— nonresistant noun

Examples of NONRESISTANT

1. <the nonresistant arrest of most of the demonstrators>

First Known Use of NONRESISTANT

1702

Related to NONRESISTANT

Synonyms

acquiescent, passive, resigned, tolerant, tolerating, unresistant, yielding

Antonyms

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

Related Words

forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining; agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing; obeisant, submissive, surrendering; amiable, obliging; slavish, subservient; disciplined, governable, manageable; apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms

defiant; contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward; balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded; headstrong, willful (or wilful); indomitable; undisciplined, unmanageable; dissident, nonconformist

Rhymes with NONRESISTANT

coexistent, equidistant, inconsistent, inexistent, nonexistent, nonpersistent, preexistent, self-consistent, self-subsistent