Unresisted

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Encountering no opposition or objection in various circumstances
2. Meeting with complete acceptance and lacking any challenge in diverse contexts
3. Not met with any form of opposition or resistance in a situation

Etymology: "Unresisted" is a plain English compound: the prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "resisted," the past participle of "resist." Resist itself came into English through Old French "resister" from Latin "resistere," literally "to stand back against," built from "re-" ("back") and "sistere" ("to stand"). So the word describes something that has been met with no opposition, the sense of "not stood against" carried all the way through the Latin roots. Because "resisted" is a participle, "unresisted" works as an adjective describing something that was never pushed back against, from a force or an idea to a claim or a move. The construction follows the same pattern as "unopposed," "unchallenged," and "unquestioned," all of which take the "un-" prefix on a past participle to name the absence of the action.

Synonyms: unopposed, uncontested, unfought, unimpeded, unobstructed