irresistible

Definition

Impossible to resist.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin irresistibilis, equivalent to ir- + resistible.

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 ..."