renitent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=ni=tent

CIDE DICTIONARY

renitent, a. [L. renitens, -entis, p. pr. of renit to strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle or strive: cf. F. rénitent.].

•  Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.  Ray.  [1913 Webster]
•  Persistently opposed.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

renitent

antagonistic, antipathetic, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, breakaway, clashing, complaining, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, crotchety, dilatory, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, firm, fractious, grudging, hostile, indifferent, inimical, laggard, loath, nonconformist, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, perfunctory, perverse, pokerlike, proof against, protesting, ramrodlike, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, repellent, repugnant, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, revolutionary, rigid, rodlike, slow, slow to, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, taut, tense, tight, uncooperative, unenthusiastic, unrelaxed, unsubmissive, unyielding, unzealous, up in arms, virgate, withstanding

ROGET THESAURUS

renitent

Resistance

N resistance, stand, front, oppugnation, oppugnancy, opposition, renitence, renitency, reluctation, recalcitration, kicking, repulse, rebuff, insurrection, strike, turn out, lock out, barring out, levee en masse, Jacquerie, riot, resisting, resistive, resistant, refractory, recalcitrant, renitent, up in arms, repulsive, repellant, proof against, unconquerable, stubborn, unconquered, indomitable, unyielding, Int, hands off!, keep off!.

Counteraction

N counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition &c, voluntary resistance, repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety), counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary, contrary, although, in spite of, against, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.

Elasticity

N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.