The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with:
— He encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens.

synonym: opposition.

Roget 179: counteraction, opposition; contrariety etc. 14; antagonism, polarity; clashing etc. v.; collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction etc. (recoil) 277; counterblast^†; neutralization etc. (compensation) 30; vis inertiae [Lat.]; check etc. (hindrance) 706.    voluntary opposition etc. 708, voluntary resistance etc. 719; repression etc. (restraint) 751.    opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety) 14.    ... show more

Roget 708: opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy^†, oppugnation^†; impugnation^†; contrariety; contravention; counteraction etc. 179; counterplot.    cross fire, undercurrent, head wind.    clashing, collision, conflict.    competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race.    absence of aid etc. 708; resistance etc. 719; restraint etc. 751; hindrance etc. 706.    ... show more

Roget 717: defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding etc. v.; propugnation^†, preservation etc. 670; guardianship.    area defense; site defense.    self-defense, self-preservation; resistance etc. 719.    safeguard etc. (safety) 664; balistraria^†; bunker, screen etc. (shelter) 666; camouflage etc. (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment^†; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse^†, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment^†; kila^†; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation^†; paling etc. (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado^†, laager^†, sangar^†; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis^†, abbatis^†; vallum^†, circumvallation^†, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp^†, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate^†; vallation^†, vanfos^†.    buttress, abutment; shore etc. (support) 215.    breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet^†, bastion, redan^†, ravelin^†; vauntmure^†; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan^†, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage [Fr.], fort-alice; lines.    loophole, machicolation^†; sally port.    hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum etc. (refuge) 666; keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon^†, pah^†, sconce, martello tower^†, peelhouse^†, blockhouse, rath^†; wooden walls.    [body armor] bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate^†, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum^†, cuirass, habergeon^†, mail, coat of mail, brigandine^†, hauberk, lorication^†, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade^†, heaume^†, morion^†, murrion^†, armet^†, cabaset^†, vizor^†, casquetel^†, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace^†, shako etc. (dress) 225.    bearskin; panoply; truncheon etc. (weapon) 727.    garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian etc. (safety) 664; bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner^†.    bulletproof window.    hardened site.    ... show more

Roget 719: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation^†; oppugnancy^†; opposition etc. 708; renitence^†, renitency; reluctation^†, recalcitration^†; kicking etc. v.. repulse, rebuff.    insurrection etc. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse [Fr.], Jacquerie; riot etc. (disorder) 59.    ... show more

Dutch: oppositie, protest, strubbeling, strubbelingen, tegenstand, tegenwerking, weerstand, weerwerk
Polish: opozycja, opór, odpór, protest, sprzeciw

Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion.

Dutch: verzet, tegendruk, weerstand
Polish: opór ruchu, siła oporu, odpór, opór

A material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms.

synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity.

Dutch: weerstandsvermogen, impedantie, elektrishe weerstand, ohmse weerstand, weerstand
Polish: opór elektryczny, opór, oporność, rezystancja

The military action of resisting the enemy's advance.

medicine The condition in which an organism can resist disease.

synonym: immunity.

Dutch: immuniteit, resistentie, weerstand
Polish: odporność

The capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents.

A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force.

synonym: underground.

Dutch: ondergrondse, verzet, verzetsbeweging, verzetsorganisatie
Polish: ruch oporu

The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria).

Polish: lekooporność

psychiatry An unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness.

Polish: opór

An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current.

synonym: resistor.

Dutch: verzetsstrijder, weerstand
Polish: opornik, rezystor

Group action in opposition to those in power.