resistance

resistance is a 10-letter English word with 15 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
2. noun. 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. noun. A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
4. noun. A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
5. noun. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

   "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"

   "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"

   Synonyms: opposition

6. noun. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

   "the enemy offered little resistance"

7. noun. group action in opposition to those in power
8. noun. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

   Synonyms: resistor

9. noun. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
10. noun. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
11. noun. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

    Synonyms: underground

12. noun. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
13. noun. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

    Synonyms: impedance, resistivity

14. noun. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

    "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"

15. noun. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

    Synonyms: immunity

Synonyms

opposition, resistor, underground, impedance, resistivity, immunity

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in resistance:

ancestries, senatrices

Common word forms

resistances

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