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irresistable

irresistable is the dated form of irresistible.

Meaning of irresistible

Adjective

irresistible (comparative more irresistible, superlative most irresistible)

  1. Impossible to resist.
    • Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march, where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the market-place, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a torrent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a...1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 103
  2. Compellingly attractive.

Forms of irresistable

comparativemore irresistable
superlativemost irresistable

Questions about irresistable

What is irresistable the dated form of?
Irresistable is the dated form of irresistible.

Words near irresistable in the dictionary

  1. irrescindable
  2. irresectability
  3. irresectable
  4. irresilient
  5. irresistability
  6. irresistable
  7. irresistably
  8. irresistance
  9. irresistibility
  10. irresistibilize
  11. irresistible

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