Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Not resistant, especially to a disease or an environmental factor, such as heat or moisture.
- adj. Submissively obedient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. not resistant
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Making no resistance.
- 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.
- n. One who holds that violence should never be resisted by force
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Making no resistance to power or oppression; passively obedient.
- n. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to sovereign authority, even when unjustly exercised.
- n. One who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. offering no resistance
- adj. (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with
- n. a reformer who believes in passive resistance
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways To View The Sunset
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How about something more neutral or positive, like “nonresistant”?
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore! | Johnny B. Truant
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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.
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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."
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With one finger and without using force but instead using a relaxed nonresistant touch, I put this man on the ground.
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They were initially treated with antibiotics that can obliterate nonresistant staph infections -- the type normally seen outside hospitals.
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The boundaries of Ecoregion 64a generally occur at the limit of nonresistant Triassic deposits.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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Ecoregion 60, in northeastern Pennsylvania, is a plateau made up of horizontally bedded, nonresistant shales and siltstones and moderately resistant sandstones of Devonian age.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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But the thing is, with the nonresistant strains, the quinolones are really effective.
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Minnich is actually looking at testing microevolution using bacteria that develop antibiotic resistance and why the nonresistant strain takes over when removed from that environment.
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