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RESISTANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Example:
plastic highly resistant to steam and water
Synonyms:
repellent; resistant
Classified under:
Similar:
nonabsorbent; nonabsorptive (not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids))
Derivation:
resist (withstand the force of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
Synonyms:
insubordinate; resistant; resistive
Classified under:
Similar:
defiant; noncompliant (boldly resisting authority or an opposing force)
Derivation:
resist (stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something)
resist (express opposition through action or words)
resist (refuse to comply)
resistance (group action in opposition to those in power)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Impervious to being affected
Example:
resistant to persuasion
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
imperviable; impervious (not admitting of passage or capable of being affected)
Derivation:
resistance ((psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
Synonyms:
immune; resistant
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
insusceptible; unsusceptible (not susceptible to)
Derivation:
resist (resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ)
resistance (the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria))
resistance ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
Example:
the new hybrid is more resistant to drought
Synonyms:
resistant; tolerant
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tolerable (capable of being borne or endured)
Context examples:
If you are insulin resistant, too much sugar builds up in your blood, setting the stage for disease.
(Metabolic Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
To help fight the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, many scientists have been trying to adapt these peptides as potential new drugs.
(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes infections that are resistant to several common antibiotics.
(Antibiotics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Skeletal muscle fibers having low myofibrillar ATPase activity, low glycogen content, and high myoglobin content, high mitochondrial oxidative enzyme activities, and an intermediate mitochondrial content which produce a slow twitch and are fatigue-resistant.
(Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Apricitabine is effective against nucleoside-resistant HIV.
(Apricitabine, NCI Thesaurus)
Arbekacin is most commonly used in the treatment of multi-resistant bacterial infections.
(Arbekacin, NCI Thesaurus)
This syndrome affects myeloid (bone marrow) cells, causing treatment-resistant anemia, and myelodysplastic syndromes that may lead to acute myelogenous leukemia.
(Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Isolated del(5q), NCI Dictionary)
The sulfo-SPDB linker prevents cleavage in the bloodstream and may improve this agent's efficacy in multidrug resistant tumor cells.
(Anti-FOLR1-Monoclonal Antibody-Maytansinoid Conjugate IMGN853, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cambridge team showed that triclosan was able to target and act on this enzyme even in pyrimethamine-resistant parasites.
(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)
UC-781 is a potent inhibitor of reverse transcriptase-dependent pyrophosphorolysis, and purportedly restores the chain-terminating activity of zidovudine (AZT) against AZT-resistant virus.
(N-(4-Chloro-3-((3-Methyl-2-Butenyl)Oxy)Phenyl)-2-Methyl-3-Furancarbothioamide, NCI Thesaurus)
