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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fighting, opposition |
| Synonyms: | battle, blocking, check, combat, contention, counteraction, cover, defiance, detention, fight, friction, halting, hindrance, holding, impedance, impediment, impeding, intransigence, obstruction, parrying, protecting, protection, rebuff, refusal, retardation, safeguard, screen, shield, stand, striking back, struggle, support, warding off, watch, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | compliance, conforming, cooperation, submission |
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| Concept: | Resistance. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
resistance, stand, front, oppugnation; oppugnancy; opposition; renitence, renitency; reluctation, recalcitration; kicking., repulse, rebuff., insurrection (disobedience); strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot (disorder).
-verbs
resist; not submit; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm., breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent; face, confront, grapple with; show a bold front (courage); present a front; make a stand, take one's stand., kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against (attack); rise up in arms (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin (remonstrate); revolt (disobey); make a riot., prendre le mors aux dents; take the bit between the teeth; sell one's life dearly, die hard, keep at bay; repel, repulse.
-adjectives
resisting; resistive, resistant; refractory (disobedient); recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms., repulsive, repellant., proof against; unconquerable (strong); stubborn, unconquered; indomitable (persevering); unyielding (obstinate).
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| Main Entry: | antagonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | causing problem; opposition |
| Synonyms: | animosity, animus, antipathy, antithesis, clashing, competition, conflict, contention, contradistinction, contrariety, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, enmity, friction, hatred, hostility, incongruity, oppugnancy, rancor, resistance, rivalry |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding |
| Main Entry: | backlash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adverse reaction |
| Synonyms: | backfire, boomerang, counteraction, kickback, reaction, recoil, repercussion, resentment, resistance, response, retaliation, retroaction, tangle |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armament; protection system |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armor, arms, barricade, bastille, bastion, bulwark, buttress, citadel, cover, deterrence, dike, embankment, fastness, fence, fort, fortification, fortress, garrison, guard, immunity, munitions, palisade, parapet, position, protection, rampart, redoubt, resistance, safeguard, security, shelter, shield, stockade, stronghold, trench, wall, ward, warfare, weaponry, weapons |
| Antonyms: | desertion, flight, surrender |
| Main Entry: | disinclination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwillingness to do or believe something |
| Synonyms: | alienation, antipathy, aversion, demur, disfavor, dislike, disliking, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, distaste, hatred, hesitance, indisposition, lack of desire, lack of enthusiasm, loathness, objection, opposition, reluctance, repugnance, resistance |
| Antonyms: | bent, desire, enthusiasm, incentive, inclination, leaning, willingness |
| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement, disapproval |
| Synonyms: | bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
| Antonyms: | agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, endorsement, ratification, sanction |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | courage, will to resist |
| Synonyms: | aggression, aggressiveness, attack, backbone, belligerence, boldness, combativeness, gameness, hardihood, mettle, militancy, pluck, pugnacity, resistance, spirit |
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