Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to resist: an irresistible impulse to sneeze.
- adj. Having an overpowering appeal: irresistible beauty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not resistible; incapable of being successfully resisted or opposed; superior to resistance or repulsion.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not able to be resisted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. overpoweringly attractive
- adj. impossible to resist; overpowering.
Etymologies
- ir- + resistible (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The rattling of this lure and its swimming action make in irresistible to trout.”
“Mr. Shindo's film appeals on many levels, but what makes it irresistible is its exquisite melding of stark black-and-white cinematography and intensely evocative sound design, in which the continually rustling vegetation is virtually an additional character.”
“TV on the Radio represent everything that is good and right about the Brooklyn indie scene from which they emerged -- they are restlessly experimental but grounded in irresistible melodies.”
““Taken as a group, the stories of Antediluvian Tales show what Poppy Z. Brite has been quietly doing so well for years – writing about the working class of New Orleans … This one is a small treasure that fans of good Southern writing should certainly enjoy and readers who love the city will find irresistible from the very first page.””
“The ancestors of the modern Servians poured into the peninsula in irresistible numbers, overpowered the inhabitants, and reached the Dalmatian coast, burning the Roman town of Salona, 609 A.D.”
“His wilful phrensy he calls irresistible, and weeps for the torments which he himself inflicts.”
“Some readers did find the deal I described as irresistible, and were completely convinced that I was wrong in saying that it was a loser.”
“*** A docu-series with a title as irresistible as "Love Handles" has to be considered promising.”
“Christians can fall back on the idea of irresistible grace to save people from spiritual poverty.”
The Huffington Post: Leah Anthony Libresco: Ross Douthat's Uncharitable Choice
“And yet the urge to speak his name was irresistible, as if some part of her wanted to confess her “dark deed.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘irresistible’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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EN - eesily missspellable wirds
accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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sistrurus
pygmy rattlers (do you feel shaken?)
resistor, transistor, sister, assist, Pisistratus, unsisting, persist, consist, insist, insistence, discursist, irresistible and 45 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Favorite Adjectives
My personal favorite adjectives in the English language. Will add as I remember or think of them.
brilliant, gay, homosexual, queer, eccentric, ridiculous, horrific, disgusting, revolting, grotesque, classy, gorgeous and 28 more...
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Korniko's Words
quixotic, existential, archaic, black, cheap, laser, jungle, tropical, listed, festive, survey, blind and 87 more...
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Women's Desires in Relationships
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