About The Word Resistless
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Resistless
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What's The Definition Of Resistless?
[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?" Synonyms | Synonyms for Resistless: inactive | irresistible | overpowering | overwhelming | passive | supine | unresisting Related Terms | Find terms related to Resistless: See Also | Resistless In Webster's Dictionary \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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