nonresistant

nonresistant
adjective
1. (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with
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liable to diabetes

• Syn: ↑liable, ↑nonimmune, ↑unresistant
• Similar to: ↑susceptible
2. offering no resistance
• Similar to: ↑compliant
• Derivationally related forms: ↑nonresistance

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I. \\“+\ adjective
Etymology: non- (I) + resistant
: not resistant: as
a. : practicing or adhering to nonresistance

pacifist and nonresistant in attitude and program — G.F.Hershberger

b. : not capable of resisting : incapable of offering opposition (as to a disease) : susceptible

nonresistant strains of mice

II. noun
: a person who maintains or acts on the theory that no resistance should be made to constituted authority even when unjust or oppressive; also : one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force

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/non'ri zis"teuhnt/, adj.
1. not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects.
2. not resistant; passively obedient.
n.
3. a person who does not resist force.
4. a person who maintains that violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, should not be resisted by force.
[1695-1705; NON- + RESISTANT]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • nonresistant — adjective Date: 1702 not resistant; specifically susceptible to the effects of a deleterious agent (as an insecticide, a pathogen, or an extreme environmental condition) • nonresistant noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • nonresistant — /non ri zis teuhnt/, adj. 1. not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects. 2. not resistant; passively… …   Universalium

  • nonresistant — adjective not resistant …   Wiktionary

  • nonresistant — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. passive, nonviolent, yielding, tolerant, submissive; see also docile , obedient 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Submitting without objection or resistance: acquiescent, passive, resigned, submissive. See RESIST …   English dictionary for students

  • nonresistant — nÉ‘nrɪ zɪstÉ™nt / nÉ’n n. not resistant …   English contemporary dictionary

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