irresistible

Speech parts

1. irresistible - Adjective

2. irresistible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

resistless almighty winsome powerful magnetic winning beautiful attractive desirable engaging inevitable overwhelming pretty infectious appealing
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Antonyms

resistible dowdy gaudy poor ordinary plain
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Phrases with the word

irresistible proof irresistible force

Examples

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Craig Raine

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. J. Edgar Hoover

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? Adlai Stevenson II

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. John Mott

I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire. John Updike

Close letter words and terms

irresistably irresistance irresistibility irresistible force irresistible grace irresistible impulse