resistless
/ɹəˈzɪstləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?"
Etymology
Etymology tree English resist Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English resistless From resist + -less.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəˈzɪstləs/
- British English: /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
Inflected Forms
more resistless (comparative)
most resistless (superlative)