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resistive
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | immune, impervious, insusceptible, invulnerable, proof, protected, renitent, repellent, resisting, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | defiant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, disregardful |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, audacious, bold, challenging, contumacious, daring, gutsy, insolent, insubmissive, insubordinate, mutinous, obstinate, provocative, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, resistant, resistive, sassy*, truculent |
| Antonyms: | acquiescent, obedient, respectful, submissive, submitting, subordinating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, nonobservant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistive, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful |
| Antonyms: | accepting, behaving, nice, obedient, observant, submitting |
| 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: | underground |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, subversive |
| Synonyms: | alternative, avant-garde, clandestine, concealed, covert, experimental, hidden, hush-hush, on the QT, on the sly, private, radical, resistant, resistive, revolutionary, surreptitious, unbowed, unconventional, under wraps, undercover, unusual |
| Antonyms: | authorized, condoned, known, legal, public |
| Main Entry: | insusceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | immune, impervious, invulnerable, proof, protected, repellent, resistive, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | renitent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, resisting, resistive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | resisting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
| Synonyms: | contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, renitent, resistive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | subterrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underground |
| Synonyms: | alternative, avant-garde, clandestine, concealed, covert, experimental, hidden, hush-hush, hypogeal, hypogean, hypogeous, on the QT, on the sly, private, radical, resistant, resistive, revolutionary, subterranean, surreptitious, unbowed, unconventional, under wraps, undercover, unusual |
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