Word Meanings - RESIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud.

Additional info about word: RESIST

1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud. James iv. 6. Contrary to his high will Whom we resist. Milton. 3. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction. 4. To be distasteful to. Shak. Syn. -- To withstand; oppose; hinder; obstruct; counteract; check; thwart; baffle; disappoint.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESIST)

• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• vex
• irritate
• chagrin
• tease
• harass
• disappoint
• grieve
• annoy
• worry
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fret
• fidget
• writhe
• Confront
• Oppose
• face
• encounter
• intimidate
• menace
• Kick
• rebel
• spurn
• Withstand
• mutch
• obstruct
• confront
• oppugn
• bar
• hinder
• contravene
• check
• thwart
• Repel
• Repulse
• reject
• refuse
• deter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESIST)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to RESIST)

• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• REPULSER
  One who repulses, or drives back.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• SPURN-WATER
  A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
• CALCITRATE
  To kick.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.