irresistible
/ˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impossible to resist.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march, where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the market-place, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a torrent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world."
- "Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible: at what point did handwriting begin to express individual personality?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin resisto Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin irresistibilislbor. English irresistible Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin irresistibilis, equivalent to ir- + resistible.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ir-
- Suffix: resistible