resistant vs resistive

resistant

adj
  • Which makes resistance or offers opposition. 

  • Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc. 

  • Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample. 

noun
  • A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement. 

  • A thing which resists. 

resistive

adj
  • Tending to resist (against something or someone); resistant. 

  • Acting as a resistor; resisting the passage of electrical current. 

  • Of an electronic circuit: consisting only of resistors and power sources; having no inductance and capacitance. 

How often have the words resistant and resistive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )