resistless
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/ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
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/ɹɪˈzɪstləs/ · /ɹəˈzɪstləs/
Definition of resistless
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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
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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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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.
Words you can make from resistless
200+ playable · top: LEISTERS (8 pts)
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4 words7-letter words
18 words6-letter words
37 words- ELITES 6 pts
- ESTERS 6 pts
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5-letter words
58 words- ELITE 5 pts
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4-letter words
59 words- EELS 4 pts
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3-letter words
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