widerstrebend
German, verb/viːdɐˈʃtʁeːbənt/
widerstrebend is spelled W-I-D-E-R-S-T-R-E-B-E-N-D (13 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 105,614th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Widerstrebend is a German verb meaning “present participle of widerstreben” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does widerstrebend mean in English?
verb
- 1
present participle of widerstreben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in seiner Form eine ablehnende Haltung hervorrufend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of widerstrebend
- ist widerstrebend masculine predicative singular
- es ist widerstrebend neuter predicative singular
- sind widerstrebend plural predicative third-person
- widerstrebender masculine nominative singular
- widerstrebende feminine nominative singular
- widerstrebendes neuter nominative singular
- widerstrebenden genitive masculine singular
- widerstrebendem dative masculine singular
- der widerstrebende definite includes-article masculine
- die widerstrebende definite feminine includes-article
- das widerstrebende definite includes-article neuter
- die widerstrebenden definite includes-article nominative
- des widerstrebenden definite genitive includes-article
- der widerstrebenden definite feminine genitive
- dem widerstrebenden dative definite includes-article
- am widerstrebendsten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce widerstrebend?
- /viːdɐˈʃtʁeːbənt/
- [viːdɐˈʃtʁeːbn̩t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to widerstrebend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is widerstrebend in German?
widerstrebend appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).