English Online Dictionary. What means resistant? What does resistant mean?
English
Etymology
From French résistant; equivalent to resist + -ant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈzɪstənt/
Noun
resistant (plural resistants)
- A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- A thing which resists.
Translations
Adjective
resistant (comparative more resistant, superlative most resistant)
- Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
- Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
- (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- robust
References
- “resistant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- rattiness, strainest, straitens, tartiness, train sets, trainsets
Latin
Verb
resistant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of resistō