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resistant

adj. impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion"

repellent

adj. incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

immune

adj. relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)

challenging, insubordinate, resistive

adj. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

insensitive

adj. not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"

insensible

adj. incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"

callous, unfeeling, thick-skinned, indurate

adj. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

rebellious, mutinous

adj. disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate"

rebellious, contumacious

adj. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"

dissident, dissentient, dissenting

adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority

reluctant, loath, loth

adj. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"; "unwilling to face facts"

bulldog, tenacious, unyielding, dour, dogged, pertinacious

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

greaseproof

adj. resistant to penetration by grease or oil or wax; "greaseproof wrapping paper"

mothproof, moth-resistant

adj. resistant to damage by moths

proof

adj. (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand; "temptation-proof"; "childproof locks"

runproof, ladder-proof, run-resistant

adj. (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders

soundproof

adj. impervious to, or not penetrable by, sound; "a soundproof room"

immunized, vaccinated

adj. having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease

unpersuadable

adj. not susceptible to persuasion

truculent, obstreperous, recalcitrant, unruly

adj. stubbornly defiant of authority or restraint: "an obstreperous almost mutinous crew"; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"; "a truculent speech against the new government"

absorbent, absorptive

adj. having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); "as absorbent as a sponge"

susceptible

adj. (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"

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