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resistive

adj. exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance; "resistive load"

resistant, challenging, insubordinate

adj. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

Fuzzynyms (16)

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"

Synonyms (4)

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"

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resistive

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