to resist

Examples

• All

• What Australian educators resist most is a top-down approach that imposes a common curriculum.

  Academic text (1995)

• Tar Baby, like all classic literary works, resists an easy and simple interpretation.

  Academic text (1996)

• But people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number.

• And it's painful to watch somebody resist their own expansion.

• In other words, the models resist being retrained.

• Gifted students are creative and innovative, often in forms and styles that resist prediction.

  Academic text (1996)

• Real diversity is complicated as hell, and it resists being brought into a unity.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• His attachment to traditional morality resists explanation on his own terms.

  Academic text (1995)

• A pluralist society must resist the leveling tendencies of mass society.

  Academic text (1997)

• The Third Policeman resists the collapsing of artistic and physical impairment in a very different manner.

  Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

E

to elude

vsto resist

83 5.8

To escape someone or fail to be understood

is about remaining impervious to explanation rather than physical avoidance

D

to defy

vsto resist

54 5.5

Be impossible to explain or understand

is about eluding understanding by being hard to grasp

Antonyms

U

to understand

∞ 1.0

To know the meaning of something

C

to clarify

248 3.3

To make something clear so others can understand it

Idioms

H

hard to resist

5 3.2

So attractive you cannot say no

Phrasal Verbs

C

to couldn't resist

56 3.7

Not be able to stop yourself from doing something because you really want it

Compounds

N

Ni-resist iron

• Specialized

8.0

A cast iron with nickel that resists heat and corrosion

How Explainable

to make sense

858 1.4

to puzzle

73 4.9

to baffle

65 5.3

to resist

4 7.5

to defy

54 5.5

Surface Forms

Etymology