Definitions for resistive

resistive re·sis·tive

Spelling: [ri-zis-tiv]
IPA: /rɪˈzɪs tɪv/

Resistive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in resistive (eeiirsstv).

Definitions for resistive

adjective

  1. capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
  2. Electricity. pertaining to or relying on electrical resistance: Compare capacitive (def 2).

Origin of resistive

First recorded in 1595-1605; resist + -ive

Examples for resistive

This morning lies in bed staring, resistive, again she is markedly cataleptic.

We must give him endurance, quickness of response, and resistive force.

The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is his resistive power.

She soiled, refused food, and was resistive when anything was done to her.

When kidney disease exists the individual's resistive vitality is much lowered.

Suppose, now, that the bacillus took such a new departure, and got ahead of our resistive power.

But more and more she became disinterested, totally inaccessible, resistive, had to be tube-fed.

When interfered with, she was resistive and sometimes let herself fall out of bed.

In the midst of this the lungs have their resistive vitality raised so as to throw off the disease.

There she was described as quiet, mute, tube-fed, resistive.

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