resistive

[ ri-zis-tiv ]

/ rɪˈzɪs tɪv /

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adjective

capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.

Electricity. pertaining to or relying on electrical resistance: Pressure from your finger creates an electrical contact between the two layers of a resistive touchscreen. Compare capacitive(def 2).

Origin of resistive

First recorded in 1595–1605; resist + -ive

OTHER WORDS FROM resistive

re·sis·tive·ly, adverb re·sis·tive·ness, noun non·re·sis·tive, adjective un·re·sis·tive, adjective

Words nearby resistive

resistance, free french, resistant, resistate, resistencia, resistible, resistive, resistivity, resistless, resistor, resit, reskill

Example sentences from the Web for resistive

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

Benign Stupors |August Hoch
Suppose, now, that the bacillus took such a new departure, and got ahead of our resistive power.

The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, |Charles Edward Page
So patients were usually depressed into a state of mind in which their resistive vitality was much lowered.

Psychotherapy |James J. Walsh
Resistive vitality in the physical order and character in the moral order seem to be co-ordinate factors.

Psychotherapy |James J. Walsh

The name of ironstone remained to that class of pottery which is strong and resistive.

British Manufacturing Industries |L. Arnoux

British Dictionary definitions for resistive

resistive

/ (rɪˈzɪstɪv) /

adjective

another word for resistant

exhibiting electrical resistance

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