THESAURUS
renitent
antagonistic, antipathetic, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, breakaway, clashing, complaining, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, crotchety, dilatory, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, firm, fractious, grudging, hostile, indifferent, inimical, laggard, loath, nonconformist, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, perfunctory, perverse, pokerlike, proof against, protesting, ramrodlike, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, repellent, repugnant, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, revolutionary, rigid, rodlike, slow, slow to, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, taut, tense, tight, uncooperative, unenthusiastic, unrelaxed, unsubmissive, unyielding, unzealous, up in arms, virgate, withstanding
ROGET THESAURUS
renitent
Resistance
N
resistance, stand, front, oppugnation, oppugnancy, opposition, renitence, renitency, reluctation, recalcitration, kicking, repulse, rebuff, insurrection, strike, turn out, lock out, barring out, levee en masse, Jacquerie, riot, resisting, resistive, resistant, refractory, recalcitrant,
renitent, up in arms, repulsive, repellant, proof against, unconquerable, stubborn, unconquered, indomitable, unyielding, Int, hands off!, keep off!.
Counteraction
N
counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition &c, voluntary resistance, repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety), counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive,
renitent, reactionary, contrary, although, in spite of, against, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.
Elasticity
N
elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient,
renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.