The phrase "was prone" can be replaced with its antonym "was resistant". Resistance implies an opposite and confrontational stance to being prone. One who is resistant stands firm and resilient to negative influences, challenges or temptations, unlike the person who is prone to their negative effects. A resistant individual is self-assured and more likely to persevere through obstacles, whereas a prone person may have greater difficulty in achieving their goals. To be resistant is to have greater agency over one's life, and to be more empowered in making choices that serve one's own needs and desires.

What are the antonyms for Was prone?

• v.

  • lean
  • dislike
  ,
  • disregard
  ,
  • forget
  ,
  • not like
  ,
  • straighten
  .
  • lie
  • be honest
  ,
  • be upright
  ,
  • stand
  .

Famous quotes with Was prone

• The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

  David Knopfler
• Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

  Michael Chabon
• He was prone to see the handwriting on the wall, for England, for socialism, for personal liberty; indeed, his work is one insistent reminder, and his personal life — what we glimpse of it — even when he was fairly affluent seems to have been an illustrated lesson in survival techniques under extreme conditions, as though he expected to be cast adrift in a capsule.

  George Orwell
• After Bjartur had become a person of great worth, even he was prone to admit on occasion that life had sometimes been pretty hard in Summerhouses in the old days, but one has to take a few knocks if one wants to get on, surely, and anyway we never ate other folk's bread. Other folk's bread is the most virulent form of poison that a free and independent man can take; other folk's bread is the only thing that can rob him of independence and the one true freedom.

  Halldór Laxness

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