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Word Meanings - COUNTERACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to counteract.

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  • RESILIENT
    Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
  • RENITENT
    strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle 1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impluse by elastic force. " soft and yet renitent." Ray. 2. Persistently opposed.
  • ELASTIC
    1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
  • TOUGH-CAKE
    See
  • TOUGHEN
    To grow or make tough, or tougher.
  • TOUGH-HEAD
    The ruddy duck.
  • TOUGH-PITCH
    The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
  • TOUGHLY
    In a tough manner.
  • ELASTICITY
    1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
  • ELASTICALLY
    In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
  • RELUCTANTLY
    In a reluctant manner.
  • STUBBORN
    Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn
  • COUNTERACTIVELY
    By counteraction.
  • RELUCTANT
    1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
  • TOUGHISH
    Tough in a slight degree.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • ELASTICNESS
    The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
  • ELASTICAL
    Elastic. Bentley.
  • TOUGH
    toh, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. zahi, G. zähe, and 1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
  • TOUGHNESS
    The quality or state of being tough.
  • IRRESILIENT
    Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
  • UNELASTICITY
    Inelasticity.
  • INELASTICITY
    Want of elasticity.
  • GELASTIC
    Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.
  • INELASTIC
    Not elastic.

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