Definition for Resist:

• ( Chem.) A substance used to prevent a dye from colouring any but the required parts.

Synonyms for Resist:

• n.

  •
  • continue,
  • hold off,
  • persevere,
  • yield,
  • remain,
  • bother,
  • refrain,
  • submit,
  • weather,
  • maintain,
  • persist,
  • stand up to,
  • abstain,
  • neglect,
  • obtain.
  •
  • combat,
  • go against,
  • fight back.
  •
  • preserve,
  • stabilize,
  • level,
  • standardize,
  • regularize.
  •
  • buck,
  • traverse,
  • contest.
  •resist (noun)
  • withstand,
  • baulk,
  • stand firm,
  • jib,
  • protest,
  • dissent,
  • balk,
  • fend,
  • stand,
  • hold out,
  • defy.

• v.

  •chafe (verb)
  • rasp,
  • fret,
  • disturb,
  • irritate,
  • scrub,
  • rub,
  • scrape,
  • aggravate,
  • chafe,
  • grind,
  • grate,
  • wear,
  • harass,
  • abrade.
  •contend (verb)
  • clash,
  • hassle,
  • stand,
  • quarrel,
  • protest,
  • antagonize,
  • dispute,
  • wrestle,
  • bicker,
  • withstand,
  • encounter,
  • brawl,
  • vie,
  • conflict,
  • contrast,
  • struggle,
  • contend,
  • wrangle.
  •defend (verb)
  • barricade,
  • shield,
  • fend,
  • police,
  • screen,
  • argue,
  • guard,
  • answer,
  • protect,
  • sustain,
  • cover,
  • return,
  • rebut,
  • reply,
  • retort,
  • defend,
  • oppose,
  • save,
  • respond,
  • shelter,
  • uphold,
  • secure,
  • safeguard,
  • counterattack,
  • ward,
  • avert,
  • bar,
  • buffer,
  • backfire,
  • support.
  •defy (verb)
  • defy,
  • counter,
  • contravene,
  • dare,
  • face,
  • disobey,
  • dissent,
  • challenge,
  • confront,
  • countermand,
  • counteract,
  • rebel,
  • cross,
  • affront.
  •disapprove (verb)
  • discountenance.
  •hinder (verb)
  • choke,
  • bottleneck,
  • thwart,
  • constipate,
  • bung,
  • deter,
  • dam,
  • constrain,
  • detain,
  • delay,
  • snarl,
  • foul,
  • paralyze,
  • burden,
  • entrap,
  • brake,
  • clog,
  • baffle,
  • jam,
  • encumber,
  • frustrate,
  • hamstring,
  • cripple,
  • restrain,
  • snag,
  • handicap,
  • entangle,
  • tangle,
  • curb,
  • plug,
  • cramp,
  • stay,
  • drag,
  • interrupt,
  • catch,
  • complicate,
  • impair,
  • restrict,
  • crimp,
  • hamper,
  • fetter,
  • congest,
  • mire,
  • block.
  •oppose (verb)
  • fight,
  • meddle,
  • oppress,
  • obstruct,
  • object,
  • check,
  • intercept,
  • suppress,
  • contradict,
  • repress,
  • interfere,
  • disagree,
  • repel,
  • hinder,
  • inhibit,
  • rebuff,
  • impede,
  • repulse.
  •resist (verb)
  • snub,
  • stand firm,
  • stand fast.
  •stative (verb)
  • defy.
  •withstand, oppose (verb)
  • leave alone,
  • traverse,
  • dispute,
  • stay,
  • stand up to,
  • hold,
  • refrain,
  • defy,
  • continue,
  • counteract,
  • maintain,
  • keep from,
  • remain firm,
  • confront,
  • persist,
  • check,
  • remain,
  • endure,
  • fight back,
  • duel,
  • hinder,
  • curb,
  • antagonize,
  • forbear,
  • hold off,
  • prevent,
  • countervail,
  • thwart,
  • hold out against,
  • contend,
  • battle,
  • suffer,
  • forgo,
  • abstain from,
  • assault,
  • persevere,
  • repel,
  • buck,
  • struggle against,
  • put up a fight,
  • assail,
  • brook,
  • abide,
  • turn down,
  • bear,
  • combat,
  • stonewall,
  • weather.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unbendable,
  • acquiescent,
  • perversity,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • uncontrollability,
  • hardheadedness,
  • Incompliance,
  • obstreperousness,
  • adamantine,
  • resistive,
  • insurgency,
  • insurrectionist,
  • parry,
  • uncontrollableness,
  • Indocility,
  • Pulpous,
  • uncompliant,
  • incompliancy,
  • Insurgence,
  • doggedness,
  • tractability,
  • ungovernableness,
  • pertinacity,
  • tractableness,
  • Renitent,
  • obdurateness,
  • intractableness,
  • Incompliant,
  • die-hardism,
  • submissiveness,
  • Renitence,
  • Implacableness,
  • opposer,
  • inexorability,
  • unmanageability,
  • pertinaciousness,
  • intransigence,
  • fight back,
  • Obeisant,
  • renege,
  • pigheadedness,
  • Oppositionist,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • recalcitrance,
  • contumacy,
  • unsusceptibility,
  • biddable,
  • compliancy,
  • obstinateness,
  • grimness,
  • indocile.
  •
  • contumacious,
  • disobedience,
  • mushy,
  • antagonist,
  • untowardness,
  • stiff-necked,
  • hardheaded,
  • intractable,
  • uprising,
  • unruly,
  • pulpy,
  • flout,
  • obstinate,
  • go against,
  • mutineer,
  • immune,
  • stubbornness,
  • transgress,
  • revolt,
  • unrelenting,
  • adversary,
  • dutiful,
  • Implacability,
  • stubborn,
  • insurrectionary,
  • incompressible,
  • obstinacy,
  • buck,
  • amenable,
  • wildness,
  • mulish,
  • pigheaded,
  • Pappy,
  • inexorable,
  • beard,
  • intractability,
  • insurgent,
  • intransigent,
  • adamant,
  • mutiny,
  • squashy,
  • tenacious,
  • acclimatize,
  • disobedient,
  • tractable,
  • obstreperous.
  •
  • deferential,
  • defiance,
  • insusceptible,
  • unbending,
  • passive,
  • buckle,
  • opponent,
  • remorseless,
  • submit,
  • docile,
  • obdurate,
  • yielding,
  • acclimate,
  • give,
  • immunity.
  •
  • disorderly,
  • iron,
  • willful,
  • fractious,
  • rigid,
  • violate,
  • opposition,
  • ungovernable,
  • rebellion.
  •
  • hard,
  • revolution,
  • resistance.
  •
  • traverse,
  • collapse.
  •
  • wild,
  • proof.
  •
  • soft.
  •
  • tackle.
  •
  • rise,
  • fall.
  •
  • break.
  •confront
  • stand up to.
  •counteract
  • go against,
  • countercheck.
  •defend
  • fight back,
  • hold at bay,
  • beat off.
  •disagree
  • demur.
  •disobey
  • rise in arms,
  • go counter to.
  •endure
  • weather.
  •fend off
  • turn aside,
  • fight off,
  • keep off,
  • drive back.
  •oppose
  • take issue,
  • run counter to,
  • counter-attack.
  •protect
  • defend.
  •remonstrate
  • remonstrate.
  •repulse
  • set back.
  •Other relevant words:
  • countervail,
  • go against,
  • parry,
  • disorganized,
  • contend with,
  • fight against,
  • spurn,
  • contain,
  • stiff-necked,
  • bother,
  • rival,
  • tolerate,
  • Indocility,
  • breach,
  • obstinacy,
  • live on,
  • take issue,
  • confute,
  • foe,
  • stubbornness,
  • remorseless,
  • mutineer,
  • carry,
  • brave,
  • filler,
  • battle,
  • grimness,
  • prevail against,
  • clique,
  • renege,
  • strive,
  • impugn,
  • cloak,
  • camouflage,
  • abstain from,
  • defensive,
  • violate,
  • rescind,
  • disobedience,
  • conflict with,
  • demonstrated,
  • stultify,
  • hold out against,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • abstain,
  • traverse,
  • brook,
  • infract,
  • pigheadedness,
  • immunity,
  • obdurate,
  • Intermeddle,
  • alliance,
  • lock horns,
  • adversary,
  • mulish,
  • bear up,
  • Onto,
  • submissiveness,
  • stand pat,
  • stand one's ground,
  • obstreperousness,
  • meet head-on,
  • untidy,
  • insurgent,
  • Versus,
  • dominant,
  • acclimate,
  • put in order,
  • shoot,
  • pertinaciousness,
  • keep going,
  • soft,
  • preclude,
  • ward off,
  • recoil,
  • put out,
  • deflect,
  • last,
  • scorn,
  • drive away,
  • slacken,
  • infringe,
  • drive off,
  • submit,
  • arrest,
  • disorderly,
  • stomach,
  • send back,
  • collapse,
  • scotch,
  • deferential,
  • come,
  • struggle against,
  • Of,
  • keep from,
  • enemy,
  • stabilize,
  • willful,
  • intervene,
  • gainsay,
  • forgo,
  • refrain,
  • tackle,
  • countercheck,
  • level,
  • stick,
  • rigid,
  • ignore,
  • outlast,
  • During,
  • escape,
  • standardize,
  • keep back,
  • outbrave,
  • assault,
  • assembly,
  • foil,
  • discountenance,
  • hold up,
  • dam up,
  • rise,
  • repugn,
  • chaotic,
  • From,
  • untowardness,
  • deny oneself,
  • cushioning,
  • compliancy,
  • adamantine,
  • revoke,
  • stand out,
  • intractableness,
  • antagonist,
  • leave alone,
  • react,
  • endure,
  • persist,
  • padding,
  • Against,
  • hate,
  • fight back,
  • insusceptible,
  • keep in check,
  • elapse,
  • have,
  • intractability,
  • intransigence,
  • Renitent,
  • resistive,
  • uncontrollability,
  • tractability,
  • resistance,
  • tractableness,
  • avoid,
  • jumbled,
  • be reluctant,
  • contumacy,
  • protective,
  • jostle,
  • cancel,
  • biddable,
  • insurrectionist,
  • clan,
  • Unto,
  • demur,
  • keep off,
  • take,
  • unresisting,
  • hold the line,
  • rebuke,
  • ride,
  • Implacableness,
  • be loath,
  • Toward,
  • continue,
  • adhere,
  • neglect,
  • impediment,
  • eliminate,
  • affiliation,
  • Into,
  • Combater,
  • pigheaded,
  • hardheadedness,
  • decline,
  • defiance,
  • insurgency,
  • expand,
  • discard,
  • obstreperous,
  • inexorability,
  • give,
  • remain firm,
  • rowdy,
  • unbending,
  • Obeisant,
  • discord,
  • fight off,
  • proof,
  • uprising,
  • docile,
  • copula,
  • stubborn,
  • live,
  • set back,
  • be tall,
  • intractable,
  • Upon,
  • disclaim,
  • Insurgence,
  • divert,
  • breast,
  • bear,
  • incompressible,
  • disobedient,
  • passive,
  • run against,
  • oppugn,
  • throw into confusion,
  • possessive,
  • hardheaded,
  • jibe,
  • jerk,
  • forbear,
  • die-hardism,
  • retard,
  • rail,
  • refute,
  • discourage,
  • jealous,
  • keep at bay,
  • cope with,
  • turn away,
  • bridle,
  • strike,
  • recalcitrance,
  • beat off,
  • jib,
  • place upright,
  • tractable,
  • stem,
  • mutiny,
  • bear up against,
  • ungovernable,
  • combat,
  • obdurateness,
  • unruly,
  • squashy,
  • buck,
  • acquiescent,
  • gybe,
  • change course,
  • acclimatize,
  • thrust,
  • break,
  • kick,
  • put up a fight,
  • incompliancy,
  • disdain,
  • put up with,
  • pulpy,
  • Exsert,
  • withhold,
  • iron,
  • shrink from,
  • Reluctate,
  • militate,
  • preserve,
  • hard,
  • fender,
  • hold,
  • transgress,
  • work against,
  • disobey,
  • charge,
  • stretch forth,
  • boisterous,
  • yield,
  • drive back,
  • buckle,
  • comprise,
  • suffer,
  • pertinacity,
  • connection,
  • hold at bay,
  • overstep,
  • disordered,
  • dutiful,
  • reduce,
  • mushy,
  • contradict,
  • wild,
  • extend,
  • faction,
  • unrelenting,
  • masquerade,
  • assail,
  • push,
  • unbendable,
  • stave off,
  • collide,
  • uncontrollableness,
  • dampen,
  • beard,
  • counterpose,
  • Pulpous,
  • abide,
  • Oppositionist,
  • fractious,
  • stand up to,
  • association,
  • veil,
  • yielding,
  • drive,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • duel,
  • clear,
  • adamant,
  • mask,
  • proprietary,
  • stretch out,
  • amenable,
  • offend,
  • control,
  • turbulent,
  • disaccord,
  • vote against,
  • deny,
  • bear up under,
  • Renitence,
  • disapprove,
  • differ,
  • grapple with,
  • perversity,
  • pad,
  • secede,
  • revolt,
  • Counterwork,
  • obstacle,
  • maintain,
  • hold firm,
  • be unwilling,
  • counter-attack,
  • obstinate,
  • digest,
  • controvert,
  • impel,
  • rise in arms,
  • hitch,
  • repudiate,
  • survive,
  • dislike,
  • balk,
  • confound,
  • push away,
  • obtain,
  • stonewall,
  • be upright,
  • Possessory,
  • go counter to,
  • doggedness,
  • eschew,
  • marching,
  • obstinateness,
  • fall,
  • question,
  • immune,
  • cushion,
  • Reluct,
  • ungovernableness,
  • Incompliance,
  • revolution,
  • disfavor,
  • pass up,
  • intransigent,
  • flout,
  • baulk,
  • enlarge,
  • unsusceptibility,
  • run counter to,
  • interfere with,
  • unmanageability,
  • turn aside,
  • hold one's own,
  • Implacability,
  • bottle up,
  • opponent,
  • propel,
  • prevent,
  • expostulate,
  • hold out,
  • Incompliant,
  • hold off,
  • acquisitive,
  • hold back,
  • insurrectionary,
  • irregular,
  • remain,
  • weather,
  • contumacious,
  • prevail over,
  • rebellion,
  • damp,
  • Pappy,
  • tenacious,
  • disregard,
  • fend off,
  • stand up against,
  • driver,
  • champ the bit,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • inexorable,
  • regularize,
  • compel,
  • attack,
  • meet,
  • indocile,
  • contest,
  • remonstrate,
  • turn down,
  • persevere,
  • per,
  • Impune,
  • oblique,
  • uncompliant,
  • opposition,
  • refrain from,
  • opposer,
  • wildness.

Antonyms for Resist:

• v.

  • stative
    lend oneself.
  • withstand, oppose
    advance, give up, go along, discontinue, assist, reject, comply, cease, agree, surrender, allow, accept, stop, ok, go, help, quit, abandon, desert, permit, conform, encourage, indulge, leave, give in, refuse, aid.
  • Other antonyms:
    bow, stoop, knuckle under.

Homophones for Resist:

• recast, rust, regicide, rasta, rough out, rare-roasted, rested, ricotta, richweed, reseed, rosette, rossetti, resect, rose-cheeked, russet, rogue state, rusted, rajidae, rackety, restate, regatta, recite, ragweed, racist, reset, rigged, requite, raised, recto, rigid, razed, rush out, reject, rosita, racquet, recede, rushed, requested, Rasht, rigout, ragged, reseat, rectitude, rachet, rusty, rau-sed, request, rouged, rickety, rockweed, right away, rheostat, rock-steady, ragout, roasted, rosy-cheeked, ricochet, resid, recessed, reshoot, recode, rag day, rigidity, reseda, rhizoid, rough cut, right-eyed, racket, rest, react, rushdie, roughcast, requiescat, roughshod, roget, requisite, rye ergot, resuscitate, reside, residue, res gestae, rescued, rosidae, rest day, Rico Act, rough-cut, rugged, roast, rejected, rosewood, Resht, reach out, restitute, roseate, rocket, risotto, rig out, resuscitated, right, roost, roquette.

Hypernym for Resist:

• v.

  • stative
    beggar.

Hyponym for Resist:

• v.

  • stative
    escape, elude.