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Definition: Resistless |
ResistlessAdjective1. Impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?". 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resistless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ResistlessSynonyms: irresistible (adj), supine (adj), unresisting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: resistible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Necessity | Compulsory; (compel); uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless. |
Strength | Resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Resistless |
| English words defined with "resistless": irresistible ♦ To trench at ♦ Unresisted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "resistless": Caliburn. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fate abruptly brought together, and wedded with its resistless power, these two shattered lives, dissimilar in years, but similar in sorrow |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Resistless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resistless" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "resistless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i papërballueshëm (heavy, irresistible, unbearable). (various references) | |
Arabic | عديم المقاومة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непреодолим (compelling, insuperable, insurmountable, invincible, irresistible, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, unconquerable), неизбежен (fatal, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, infallible, necessary, unavoidable, unpreventable). (various references) | |
Czech | neodolatelný (irresistible, uncontrollable). (various references) | |
French | sans résistance. (various references) | |
German | unwiderstehlich (compelling, compellingly, irresistible, irresistibly, magnetic, overwhelming, uncontrollable). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρίσ αντίσταση (unopposed), ακράτητοσ (furious, impetuous, irrepressible, rampant, uncontrolled, undeterred, unrestrained), ακατάσχετοσ (irrepressible), ακαταμάχητοσ (cogent, irrefutable, irresistible). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ellenállhatatlan (cogent, compelling, devastating, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn shassoo noi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esistlessray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem resistência, irresistível (cogent, irrepressible, irresistible, killing, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, rambunctious, uncontrollable, ungovernable), indefeso (unarmed, undefended). (various references) | |
Romanian | irezistibil (irresistible, irresistibly), care nu poate rezista. (various references) | |
Russian | непреодолимый (insuperable, insurmountable, invincible, irreducible, irresistable, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, unstoppable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neotporan (frail), neodoljiv (compelling, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming). (various references) | |
Spanish | irresistible (compelling, devastating, irresistible, killing), insuperable (insuperable, insurmountable, unbeatable, unsurpassable), indefenso (defenceless, defenseless, helpless, naked, unguarded). (various references) | |
Swedish | oövervinnlig (inexpugnable, insuperable, insurmountable, invincible, unconquerable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неминучий (avoidless, cocksure, foregone, imminent, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible, matter of course, necessary, pending, shunless, unavoidable, undeclinable), нездатний чинити опір, непереборний (compelling, insuperable, opposeless, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không chống lại được; không cưỡng lại được. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resistless": resistlessly, resistlessness, resistlessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "resistless" (pronounced 'Re*sist"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: leisters, restless, stresses, tireless, tressels. | |
-3 letters: ireless, leister, listees, listers, relists, resiles, resists, resites, retiles, seisers, sessile, sisters, sterile, streels, telesis, tieless, tressel, tresses. | |
-4 letters: elites, esters, islets, istles, lesser, listee, lister, liters, litres, reests, relets, relies, relist, resets, resile, resist, resite, reties, retile, seiser, seises, serest, series, sirees, sister, sleets, sliest, steels. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: asteriskless, cloistresses, resistlessly, sultrinesses, tirelessness. | |
+3 letters: fruitlessness, gristlinesses. | |
+4 letters: masterlinesses, priestlinesses, resistlessness, salutarinesses, solitarinesses, spiritlessness, sterlingnesses, thriftlessness, tirelessnesses, tristfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: dastardlinesses, desultorinesses, distressfulness, fruitlessnesses, spiritualnesses, sprightlinesses, versatilenesses. | |
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