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Word Meanings - RESISTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making resistance; resisting. -- n.

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  • SOLIDARE
    A small piece of money. Shak.
  • IMPENETRABLENESS
    The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
  • INSUBORDINATE
    Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
  • DENSE
    1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • STABLENESS
    The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
  • COMPACT
    1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
  • COMPACTIBLE
    That may be compacted.
  • SOLIDUNGULA
    A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
  • STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
    A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
  • STRONGYLOID
    Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • STRONGYLID
    Strongyloid.
  • COMPACTEDLY
    In a compact manner.
  • SOLIDUNGULATE
    See SOLIPED
  • SUBSTANTIALS
    Essential parts. Ayliffe.
  • CUBIC; CUBICAL
    Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • SOLIDATE
    To make solid or firm. Cowley.
  • POSTABLE
    Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
  • INTESTABLE
    Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • INSUBSTANTIAL
    Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
  • SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
    More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
  • CONSOLIDATED
    Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
  • CONSOLIDATION
    To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • HEADSTRONG
    1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;

 

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