'Nonresistant' definitions:
Definition of 'nonresistant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(often followed by `to') likely to be affected with; "liable to diabetes" [syn: liable(p), nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant]
adjective
Offering no resistance
Definition of 'Nonresistant'
From: GCIDE
- Nonresistant \Non`re*sist"ant\, a. Making no resistance. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nonresistant'
From: GCIDE
- Nonresistant \Non`re*sist"ant\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who holds that violence should never be resisted by force; especially, a reformer who believes in passive resistance.
- Syn: passive resister. [WordNet 1.5]