Definition of Nonresistant

1. Adjective. (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with. "Liable to diabetes"

Exact synonyms: Liable, Nonimmune, Unresistant
Similar to: Susceptible

2. Adjective. Offering no resistance.
Similar to: Compliant
Derivative terms: Nonresistance

Definition of Nonresistant

1. a. Making no resistance.

2. n. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

Definition of Nonresistant

1. Adjective. not resistant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonresistant

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonresistant

nonresidence
nonresidences
nonresidencies
nonresidency
nonresident
nonresidential
nonresidents
nonresidual
nonresilient
nonresin
nonresinous
nonresins
nonresiny
nonresistance
nonresistances
nonresistant (current term)
nonresistants
nonresister
nonresisters
nonresisting
nonresistor
nonresistors
nonresizable
nonresolved
nonresonant
nonresonantly
nonrespectable
nonrespectful
nonrespiratory
nonrespondent

Literary usage of Nonresistant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"... FOR GRAFTING nonresistant VARIETIES. The Rupestris St. George variety gave the highest degree of ..."

2. A Treatise on Magistracy and War: Millennium, Holiness, and the by John Holdeman (1891)
"We verily believe our position on the nonresistant doctrine to be irrefutable, and for this reason we publish it to the world. No doubt many readers are ..."

3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1910)
"RESISTANT STOCKS SHOULD BE USED FOR GRAFTING nonresistant VARIETIES. The Rupestris St. George variety gave the highest degree of resistance to the disease ..."

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