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English Dictionary: resistless by the DICT Development Group
2 results for resistless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
resistless
adj
  1. impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
    Synonym(s): irresistible, resistless
    Antonym(s): resistible
  2. offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
    Synonym(s): resistless, supine, unresisting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Resistless \Re*sist"less\, a.
      1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or
            R.] --Spenser.
  
      2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
  
                     Masters' commands come with a power resistless To
                     such as owe them absolute subjection. --Milton.
            -- {Re*sist"less*ly}, adv. -- {Re*sist"less*ness}, n.
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