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. - TOUGHLY
In a tough manner. - TOUGH-PITCH
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake. - 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.