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repellent, resistant

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

immune, resistant

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

insubordinate, resistant, 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"

thick-skinned, tough-skinned

adj. insensitive to criticism

mutinous

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

rebellious

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

dissentient, dissenting(a), dissident

adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority

loath, loth, reluctant

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

dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

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"

immunized, immunised, vaccinated

adj. having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease

unpersuadable, unsuasible

adj. not susceptible to persuasion

recalcitrant

adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

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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