Akademik

1. (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with

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liable to diabetes

2. offering no resistance

a. : practicing or adhering to nonresistance

b. : not capable of resisting : incapable of offering opposition (as to a disease) : susceptible

: a person who maintains or acts on the theory that no resistance should be made to constituted authority even when unjust or oppressive; also : one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force

/non'ri zis"teuhnt/, adj.

1. not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects.

2. not resistant; passively obedient.

3. a person who does not resist force.

4. a person who maintains that violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, should not be resisted by force.

[1695-1705; NON- + RESISTANT]