Compliant vs Resistant - What's the difference?
compliant | resistant |
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
A thing which resists.
Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
(statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
As adjectives the difference between compliant and resistant
is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while resistant is resistant.As a noun resistant is
resistant.As a verb resistant is
.compliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The suspect was compliant when arrested.
- The browser is standards compliant .
- The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Derived terms
(compatible with guidlines) * *See also
* compliantlyAnagrams
*resistant
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- The infection is resistant to antibiotics.