resistless

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
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/ɹɪˈzɪstləs/ · /ɹəˈzɪstləs/

Definition of resistless

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
    “His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]”
    “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.”
    “Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.”
    “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.”
    “I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.”
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adj

  1. That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
    “His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]”
    “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.”
    “Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.”
    “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.”
    “I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.”
  2. 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.”

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Etymology

From resist + -less.

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