Resistance Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-zĭstəns
The power of remaining impervious to an influence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. immunity
  2. imperviousness
  3. unsusceptibility
  4. immovability
  5. unalterableness
  6. hardness
  7. endurance
  8. unyieldingness
  9. fixedness
  10. fastness
  11. stability
  12. insusceptibility
  13. stableness
  14. permanence
  15. invulnerability
Antonyms:
  1. vacillation
  2. susceptibility
  3. variability
  4. withdrawal
  5. acceptance
  6. submission
The power of holding back another substance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. retardation
  2. friction
  3. nonconduction
  4. nonpromotion
  5. attrition
  6. reserve
  7. surface resistance
  8. detention
  9. volume resistance
  10. impedance
An opposition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. underground
  2. underground movement
  3. partisans
  4. maquis (French)
  5. insurgency
  6. uprising
  7. boycott
  8. strike
  9. walkout
  10. slowdown
  11. front
  12. stand
  13. guerrilla movement
Antonyms:
  1. acceptance
  2. conforming
  3. cooperation
  4. compliance
  5. submission
  6. receptivity
An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. electric-resistance
  2. resistor
  3. electrical-resistance
  4. impedance
  5. resistivity
  6. ohmic resistance

Words Related to Resistance

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Resistance Sentence Examples

  • Any resistance she might have mustered melted at his words.

  • He went without resistance.

  • Whatever resistance she had evaporated in the intensity of his desire for her.

  • The truth of his words made her last meager attempt at resistance melt.

  • He lay staring at the ceiling for a time, attempting to push away the torment; it had gripped him so completely that resistance was futile.

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