| Main Entry: | resistive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
Synonyms: |
immune, impervious, insusceptible, invulnerable, proof, protected, renitent, repellent, resisting, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | defensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | protective, watchful |
Synonyms: |
arresting, averting, balking, checking, conservative, coping with, defending, foiling, forestalling, frustrating, guarding, in opposition, interrupting, opposing, preservative, preventive, protecting, resistive, safeguarding, thwarting, uptight*, warding off, withstanding |
| Notes: | defendable means capable of being protected or justified; defensible means capable of being defended or justified; defensive means attempting to justify or defend |
Antonyms: |
undefensive, unprotective, unwary, unwatchful |
| Main Entry: | defiant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, disregardful |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, audacious, bold, challenging, contumacious, daring, gutsy, insolent, insubmissive, insubordinate, mutinous, obstinate, provocative, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, resistant, resistive, sassy*, truculent |
Antonyms: |
acquiescent, obedient, respectful, submissive, submitting, subordinating |
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
Synonyms: |
contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, nonobservant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistive, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful |
Antonyms: |
accepting, behaving, nice, obedient, observant, submitting |
| Main Entry: | negative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, contradictory |
Synonyms: |
abrogating, adverse, against, annulling, antagonistic, anti, balky, colorless, con, contrary, contravening, counteractive, cynical, denying, detrimental, disallowing, disavowing, dissentient, dissenting, gainsaying, gloomy, impugning, invalidating, jaundiced, naysaying, neutralizing, nugatory, nullifying, opposing, pessimistic, privative, recusant, refusing, rejecting, removed, repugnant, resisting, resistive, unaffirmative, unenthusiastic, unfavorable, uninterested, unwilling, weak |
Antonyms: |
good, positive |
| Main Entry: | underground |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, subversive |
Synonyms: |
alternative, avant-garde, clandestine, concealed, covert, experimental, hidden, hush-hush, on the QT, on the sly, private, radical, resistant, resistive, revolutionary, surreptitious, unbowed, unconventional, under wraps, undercover, unusual |
Antonyms: |
authorized, condoned, known, legal, public |
| Main Entry: | insusceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
Synonyms: |
immune, impervious, invulnerable, proof, protected, repellent, resistive, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | renitent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
Synonyms: |
contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, resisting, resistive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | resisting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resistant |
Synonyms: |
contrary, defiant, disobedient, opposing, rebellious, renitent, resistive, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | subterrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underground |
Synonyms: |
alternative, avant-garde, clandestine, concealed, covert, experimental, hidden, hush-hush, hypogeal, hypogean, hypogeous, on the QT, on the sly, private, radical, resistant, resistive, revolutionary, subterranean, surreptitious, unbowed, unconventional, under wraps, undercover, unusual |