from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Not resistant, especially to a disease or an environmental factor, such as heat or moisture.
adjective Submissively obedient.
from The Century Dictionary.
Making no resistance to power or oppression; passively obedient.
noun One who maintains that no resistance should be made to sovereign authority, even when unjustly exercised.
noun One who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Making no resistance.
noun 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.
noun One who holds that violence should never be resisted by force
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adjective not resistant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective offering no resistance
adjective (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with
noun a reformer who believes in passive resistance
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It happens whenever, by some wondrous "coincidence," our heart space, our mind space, and our body awareness are all simultaneously open and nonresistant.
The bacterial strain was able to grow in a solution containing 24 times the dose of mercury that would kill nonresistant bacteria—and removed more than 80% of the mercury in five days.
It happens whenever, by some wondrous "coincidence," our heart space, our mind space, and our body awareness are all simultaneously open and nonresistant.
Eating meat with nonresistant staph can cause food poisoning from "heat-stable" toxins, the paper said, while "the presence of MRSA in meats may pose a potential threat of infection to individuals who handle the food."
Ecoregion 60, in northeastern Pennsylvania, is a plateau made up of horizontally bedded, nonresistant shales and siltstones and moderately resistant sandstones of Devonian age.
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