Resistance

Noun

 * 1) The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
 * 2)  A force that tends to oppose motion.
 * 3)  Shortened form of electrical resistance.
 * 4)  An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

Adjectives for Resistance
rust; permanent; unexpected; forcible; popular; stern; unyielding; strenuous; heroic prompt; amazing; pretended; successful prolonged; stubborn; indignant; glorious increased; warlike; crushed; desperate; en¬feebled; stout; substantial; sad; perceiving vague; militant; fierce; faint; humble; bold incredulous; keener; tenacious; ineffectual organized; gladiatorial; countervailing; rationalized; unlawful; unconscious; determined; patriotic; creditable; passive; severest; awed; earnest; coy; physical; meditating; stagnated; obstinate; rugged; hopeless; insurmountable; armed; feeble; resolute ; vain; appreciable; angry.

Verbs for Resistance
acquire—; batter down—; break down—; build—; compensate for—; crush—; deplete —; determine—; encounter—; exercise—; harden for—; increase—; lower—; meet with—; prolong—; rationalize—; reduce—; stiffen—; weaken—; —collapses; —cracks; —lessens; —melts away.

Thesaurus
Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion, avoidance mechanism, avoidance reaction, backlash, backwardness, base resistance, blame-shifting, block, blockage, blocking, bucking, bushfighter, bushwhacker, callosity, callousness, capacitive reactance, casual, censorship, challenge, check, clashing, clogging, closing up, closure, coefficient of friction, cohesiveness, collision, compensation, conflict, confutation, congenital immunity, constriction, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contravention, contraversion, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, cramp, crankiness, crosscurrent, crossing, crotchetiness, cursoriness, decompensation, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, defiance, delay, denial, density, dereism, dereistic thinking, detainment, detention, deterrent capacity, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience, displacement, disrelish, dissent, dissociation, distaste, drag, durability, durity, ego defenses, electric resistance, emitter resistance, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, familial immunity, fantasizing, fantasy, fixation, flight, flintiness, fluid friction, foot-dragging, force of friction, force of viscosity, forward transfer resistance, fractiousness, friction, friction head, friction loss, frictional resistance, grudging consent, grudgingness, guard, guerillas, guerrilla, hampering, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, head wind, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, immunity, immunization, impedance, impediment, impenetrability, impugnation, impugnment, incorrigibility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inductive reactance, induration, infrangibility, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, inhibition, input resistance, insuppressibility, interference, internal friction, interruption, intractability, intractableness, intransigence, irregular, irrepressibility, isolation, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lastingness, leatherlikeness, let, magnetic reluctance, maquis, maquisard, mutinousness, natural immunity, negation, negative taxis, negativism, nolition, nonconformity, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, nuisance value, obduracy, obstinacy, obstreperousness, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, ohm, ohmage, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, oppugnation, opsonic immunity, output resistance, overcompensation, partisan, passive immunity, perfunctoriness, perverseness, phagocytic immunity, projection, protection, psychological block, psychological defenses, psychotaxis, racial immunity, rationalization, reactance, reaction, rebelliousness, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, reluctivity, renitence, renitency, repercussion, repression, repugnance, resistance fighter, restiveness, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, revolt, rolling friction, ropiness, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, setback, shrewishness, skin effect, skin friction, sliding friction, slip friction, slowness, sociological adjustive reactions, solidity, specific immunity, specific reluctance, squeeze, stamina, standing against, starting friction, static friction, steeliness, stiffness, stoniness, stranglehold, strength, stricture, stringiness, stubbornness, sublimation, substitution, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, suppression, surface resistance, swimming upstream, tenacity, the defensive, toughness, toxin-antitoxin immunity, traversal, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncontrollability, undercurrent, underground, underground fighter, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, viscidity, vitality, volume resistance, ward, wildness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

Translations

 * Arabic: مقاومة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
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 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: αντίσταση
 * Hungarian:
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 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 반항 (banhang)
 * Malay: rintangan
 * Norwegian: motstand
 * Polish: opór, sprzeciw
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: rezistare, opunere
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * German:
 * Greek: αντίσταση
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: (teikōryoku)
 * Norwegian: motkraft
 * Polish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: résistance
 * German:
 * Greek: αντίσταση
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: viðnám, mótstaða
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: motstand,
 * Polish: opór, rezystancja
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: résistance
 * German:


 * Greek: αντίσταση
 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian: motstandsbevegelse
 * Swedish: motståndsrörelse


 * : 阻力 (zǔlì)
 * : résistance
 * : resistantia


 * : resistência
 * : resistencia

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