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irresistibly

irresistibly adverb: in an irresistible manner.

Adverb

irresistibly (comparative more irresistibly, superlative most irresistibly)

  1. In an irresistible manner.
    • And yet, at other times, there is a mysterious indraft, which irresistibly draws a passing vessel among the isles, though not bound to them.1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales
    • Among them was the "West Country" driver, Swain, of Bude, over the Great Central, who reminded me irresistibly of a hunter putting a particularly mettlesome steed at the fences.1948 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 334

irresistibly meaning in Sanskrit

irresistibly in Sanskrit

irresistibly
अप्रति apratí

Examples of irresistibly in a sentence

  • The heteroerotic topos of the lover's fascinated gaze, drawn irresistibly to the face and especially the eyes of his beloved, is not hard to discern behind the parodic cruising of the Thieves.2005, James L. Miller, Dante & the Unorthodox: the Aesthetics of Transgression, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, page 216:
  • For the next three days, I found myself beautifully and irresistibly dominated by him every time we hit the sheets, which was often.2024 October 2, Kit Jannar, “My Hetero Hunk of a French Lover Asked Me to F*ck Him Like a Woman”, in Cosmopolitan:

All 10 example sentences with irresistibly

Forms of irresistibly

comparativemore irresistibly
superlativemost irresistibly

Origin of irresistibly

From irresistible + -ly.

Questions about irresistibly

What does irresistibly mean?
Irresistibly means in an irresistible manner.
What is irresistibly in Sanskrit?
Irresistibly in Sanskrit is अप्रति (apratí). See Irresistibly meaning in Sanskrit.
How do you use irresistibly in a sentence?
The heteroerotic topos of the lover's fascinated gaze, drawn irresistibly to the face and especially the eyes of his beloved, is not hard to discern behind the parodic cruising of the Thieves.
What part of speech is irresistibly?
Irresistibly is an adverb.

Words near irresistibly in the dictionary

  1. irresistibility
  2. irresistibilize
  3. irresistible
  4. irresistible grace
  5. irresistibleness
  6. irresistibly
  7. irresistless
  8. irresolubility
  9. irresoluble
  10. irresolubleness
  11. irresolubly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: irresistibly (page history and authors); अप्रति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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