Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to resist; irresistible.
- adjective Powerless to resist; unresisting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being resisted, opposed, or withstood; irresistible.
- Powerless to resist; helpless; unresisting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or R. Having no power to resist; making no opposition.
- adjective Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
irresistible - adjective
unresisting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective offering no resistance
- adjective impossible to resist; overpowering
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Examples
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His powerful left arm, driving the double-razor-edged dirk in short, resistless arcs, managed to keep the snaky tendrils from coiling about his right arm, which was wielding the heavy, trenchant sword.
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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Little wonder, therefore, that his amazing eloquence was described as a resistless torrent.
Successful Methods of Public Speaking Grenville Kleiser 1910
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Hum, thou art damnable handsome to Night, Charles -- Ay, thou wilt do't; I see a kind of resistless Leudness about thee, a most triumphant Impudence, loose and wanton.
The City Heiress 1682
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Hum, thou art damnable handsome to Night, _Charles_ -- Ay, thou wilt do't; I see a kind of resistless Leudness about thee, a most triumphant Impudence, loose and wanton.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664
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Once, however, when some allusion was made to a comic scene in a new play then just brought out, wherein she had performed to the life the character of a low-bred lady's-maid passing herself off as her mistress, Miss Kelly arose, and with a kind of resistless ardour repeated a few sentences so inimitably that everybody laughed as much as if the real lady's-maid, and not the actress, had been before them; while she who had so well personated the part quietly resumed her seat without the least sign of merriment, as grave as possible.
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me.
Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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There is however, another enemy (though in some cases my dearest friend) whose power is resistless, and whose visits are perpetually made known by a rising of the stomack, and a redundance of water in the eyes.
Letter 75 2009
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My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Chapter 3 2010
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My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Chapter 4 2010
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It is a super sort whichever way you countenance at it, and resistless to actualize how some grouping is populating the globe of Azeroth where the mettlesome of Warcraft takes place.
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