Meaning of RESISTLESS
| Pronunciation: | | ri'zistlis
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- [adj] 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
- [adj] impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
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| | Synonyms: | | inactive, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming, passive, supine, unresisting |
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| | Antonyms: | | resistible | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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