Nonresistant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nonresistant \Non`re*sist"ant\, a.
     Making no resistance.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  non-resistant
       n : a reformer who believes in passive resistance [syn: {passive
           resister}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nonresistant
       adj 1: (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with; "liable
              to diabetes" [syn: {liable(p)}, {nonimmune}, {unresistant}]
       2: offering no resistance