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/rɪˈzɪs.tɪv.li/ · re·sis·ti·ve·ly
adverb
- In a manner that offers resistance or opposes motion, flow, or change. The current decayed resistively, following Ohm’s law rather than inductive effects.
- With reluctance or obstinacy; in a way that shows unwillingness to comply. She answered resistively when asked to change her long‑standing habits.
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Did you know? “Resistively” is one of the few adverbs formed from an –ive adjective, a pattern that appears mainly in technical jargon such as “resistively heated” in engineering.