UNRESISTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unresisting mean? 

• UNRESISTING (adjective)
  The adjective UNRESISTING has 1 sense:

1. offering no resistance

  Familiarity information: UNRESISTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRESISTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Offering no resistance

Synonyms:

resistless; unresisting

Context example:

resistless hostages

Similar:

inactive; passive (lacking in energy or will)

 Context examples 

“Wolf Larsen,” I said sternly, for the first time addressing him by this his most familiar name, I am unable to shoot a helpless, unresisting man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With which he took the fork from my unresisting hand, and bent over the gridiron, as if his whole attention were concentrated on it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Summerlee had been so interested that he had stood unresisting while Challenger tilted his head into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why had the mere name of this unresisting individual—whom his word now sufficed to control like a child—fallen on him, a few hours since, as a thunderbolt might fall on an oak?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Their code has been drummed into your head from the time you lisped, and in spite of your philosophy, and of what I have taught you, it won’t let you kill an unarmed, unresisting man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)