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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. impossible to resist; overpowering;
- Example: "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"
- Example: "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
[syn: irresistible, resistless]

2. offering no resistance;
- Example: "resistless hostages"
- Example: "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
[syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Resistless \Re*sist"less\, a.
   1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or
      R.] --Spenser.
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   2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
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            Masters' commands come with a power resistless
            To such as owe them absolute subjection. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster] -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. --
      Re*sist"less*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

resistless
    adj 1: impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or
           resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible
           force meets an immovable object?" [syn: irresistible,
           resistless] [ant: resistible]
    2: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other
       colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing
       her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore
       Roosevelt [syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]