resistive.
Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.
Meaning & usage
Tending to resist something or someone; resistant.
He had a stubborn, resistive nature.
Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current.
This material is highly resistive.
Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance.
a pure resistive circuit
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English resist Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English resistive From resist + -ive.
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