resistless
Syllables: re·sist·lessUK/ɹɪˈzɪstləs/US/ɹəˈzɪstləs/
resistless adjective: that cannot be resisted; irresistible.
Adjective
resistless (comparative more resistless, superlative most resistless)
- That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
- His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines...
- Putting up no resistance; unresisting.
- All this time they were doing something—I could not see what—to the corpse; sometimes they were too busy rifling the dead body, I believe, to talk; again they let it fall with a heavy, resistless thud, and took to quarrelling.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
Examples of resistless in a sentence
- Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.1794, William Blake, The Book of Urizen, 365-7:
- 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.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please...
- I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down!1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 45:
- Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Untitled poem]”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and...
Forms of resistless
| comparative | more resistless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most resistless |
Origin of resistless
From resist + -less.
Words formed from resistless
Questions about resistless
- What does resistless mean?
- Resistless means that cannot be resisted; irresistible.
- How do you use resistless in a sentence?
- Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.
- What part of speech is resistless?
- Resistless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce resistless?
- Resistless is pronounced /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/ (UK).
Words near resistless in the dictionary
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