Qualities
Synonyms for resistant
Synonyms for resistant: repellent and tolerant. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for resistant
- repellentadjective, in the sense "incapable of absorbing or mixing with"
- tolerantadjective, in the sense "able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress"
Two senses of resistant, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Plastic highly resistant to steam and water.
The true synonym
repellent
Same sentence, swapped: Plastic highly repellent to steam and water.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- insubordinate
- perverse
- rocky
able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
The new hybrid is more resistant to drought.
The true synonym
tolerant
Same sentence, swapped: The new hybrid is more tolerant to drought.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot resistant is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- repellent
- insubordinate
- unwilling
Where resistant turns up in the game
resistant is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where resistant is the trap
- bonyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is boney, in the sense "having bones especially many or prominent bones", with resistant sitting one tile away.
Play resistant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so resistant reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company resistant keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. resistant carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.