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irresistible

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Irresistible " is a song by American recording artist Jessica Simpson that Sony Music released on April 12, 2001, as the lead single from her second studio album of the same name . Its title and concept were proposed by singer-songwriter Pamela Sheyne, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Late Latin irresistibilis , from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + resistere (see resist ). Related: Irresistibly ; irresistibility .\n

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not able to be resisted.

Usage examples of irresistible.

Abigail Adams an irresistible correspondent--young John Thaxter, as an example, and most notably Thomas Jefferson.

Its aestheticism, exclusivity, and promise of realizing through arcane practices the buddha nature in this life were irresistible to the courtiers.

A soft night light was burning below the huge, curtained baldaquin and the big, down-filled pillows were an irresistible invitation to sleep.

Then, forgetting the purpose of his research, Dasein is moved by an irresistible, unconscious impulse and swallows the extract.

His garrulity was irresistible and made Domini feel as if she were sitting with a child.

Villefort, without seeking any further explanation, and attracted towards him by the irresistible magnetism which draws us towards those who have loved the people for whom we mourn, extended his hand towards the young man.

Thus it is not surprising that Mabel and Kathleen, conscientiously conducting one of the dullest dolls tea-parties at which either had ever assisted, should suddenly, and both at once, have felt a strange, unreasonable, but quite irresistible desire to return instantly to the Temple of Flora even at the cost of leaving the dolls tea-service in an unwashed state, and only half the raisins eaten.

Her magic, the natural, irresistible glamourie of all nymphs, was very like his own special powers of enchantment, which enabled him to imbue even the most absurd falsehoods with the credibility of irrefutable fact.

Assuming the further premise that Christ after death went down among these imprisoned souls, and then rose thence again, Paul infers, by a logical process strictly valid and irresistible to one holding those premises, that the general doctrine of a resurrection from the dead is true, and that by this visible pledge we may expect it soon, since the Messiah, who is to usher in its execution, has already come and finished the preliminary stages of his work.

Before she found any way to oppose him, the twin Jewels would have given him irresistible power, both in his own right and through human allies.

Without thinking of the danger to which they might be exposed, the explorers were now impelled by an irresistible curiosity, and in a few minutes, sixteen feet lower they rejoined Top.

Should he continue, he would become a morphomaniac in a given time, and the apathy into which he fell prevented him from resisting the desire to absorb new doses of poison, a desire as imperious, as irresistible in morphinism as that of alcohol for the alcoholic, and more terrible in its effects--the perversion of the intellectual faculties, loss of will, of memory, of judgment, paralysis, or the mania that leads to suicide.

Each time she saw it, stretching on till it was lost in the serried masses of the palms, her imagination was stirred by a longing to wander through barbaric lands, by a nomad feeling that was almost irresistible.

What irresistible destiny impels the bee to meet half-way the Philanthus, its terrible enemy!

An irresistible belief in preexistence, immortality and transmigration, results.