Word Meanings - RESISTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through

Additional info about word: RESISTANCE

The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles. 3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists. Unfold to us some warlike resistance. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESISTANCE)

• Counterpressure
• Resistance
• stubbornness
• renitency
• Defense
• protection
• vindication
• plea
• justification
• excuse
• rampart
• bulwark
• apology
• shelter
• guard

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESISTANCE)

• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger

Related words: (words related to RESISTANCE)

• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXCUSER
  1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• VANGUARD
  The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard,