resistance
I
noun
antagonism, assault, attack, battle, blocking, check, combat, confrontation, contention, contrariety, contrariness, contravention, contumacy, counteraction, defiance, disobedience, fight, hindrance, immunity, imperviousness, insubordination, insurgence, insurrection, interference, mutiny, noncompliance, nonconformance, obstinacy, obstruction, oppugnance, oppugnation, protest, rebellion, rebuff, recalcitrance, recusancy, refusal, reluctance, renitence, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, revolution, sedition, stand, strife, strike, struggle, unalterableness, unsusceptibility, unwillingness, unyieldingness, uprising, withstanding
II
index
conflict, contempt (disobedience to the court), contention (opposition), contest (dispute), contravention, defiance, deterrence, disadvantage, disapproval, fight (battle), impediment, impugnation, mutiny, negation, opposition, protest, reaction (opposition), rebellion, rebuff, refusal, reluctance, revolt, struggle
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006