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resisting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, renitent, resistive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | loath |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | against, averse |
| Synonyms: | afraid, counter, disinclined, hesitant, indisposed, opposed, reluctant, remiss, resisting, uneager, unwilling |
| Notes: | loath is an adjective meaning 'unwilling, reluctant, disinclined'; whereas loathe is a verb meaning 'to dislike intensely, to feel revulsion toward, to despise' |
| Antonyms: | approving, for, unopposed, willing |
| Main Entry: | negative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, contradictory |
| Synonyms: | abrogating, adverse, against, annulling, antagonistic, anti, balky, colorless, con, contrary, contravening, counteractive, cynical, denying, detrimental, disallowing, disavowing, dissentient, dissenting, gainsaying, gloomy, impugning, invalidating, jaundiced, naysaying, neutralizing, nugatory, nullifying, opposing, pessimistic, privative, recusant, refusing, rejecting, removed, repugnant, resisting, resistive, unaffirmative, unenthusiastic, unfavorable, uninterested, unwilling, weak |
| Antonyms: | good, positive |
| Main Entry: | recalcitrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, uncontrollable |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | amenable, obedient, passive |
| Main Entry: | tenacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticky |
| Synonyms: | adhesive, clinging, clingy, fast, firm, fixed, glutinous, gummy, inseparable, mucilaginous, resisting, retentive, secure, set, tacky, tight, viscid, viscose, viscous, waxy |
| Antonyms: | loose, slack, unattached |
| Main Entry: | tough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, laborious |
| Synonyms: | arduous, backbreaking, baffling, burdensome, demanding, effortful, exacting, exhausting, exigent, grievous, hairy*, handful, hard, heavy, intractable, intricate, irksome, knotty, labored, mean, no piece of cake, onerous, oppressive, perplexing, puzzling, resisting, severe, stiff, strenuous, taxing, thorny, toilsome, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, weighty, wicked |
| Antonyms: | controllable, easy, facile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resistant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposing |
| Synonyms: | immune, insusceptible, renitent, resisting, unassailable |
| Antonyms: | receptive, susceptible |
| Main Entry: | unbowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undefeated |
| Synonyms: | determined, resisting, resolved, stubborn, triumphant, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | defeated |
| Main Entry: | renitent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, resisting, resistive, unyielding |
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