IRRESISTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irresistible mean? 

• IRRESISTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective IRRESISTIBLE has 2 senses:

1. impossible to resist; overpowering

2. overpoweringly attractive

  Familiarity information: IRRESISTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRESISTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to resist; overpowering

Synonyms:

irresistible; resistless

Context example:

what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?

Similar:

overpowering; overwhelming (so strong as to be irresistible)

Antonym:

resistible (capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated)

Derivation:

irresistibility; irresistibleness (the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overpoweringly attractive

Context example:

irresistible beauty

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

Derivation:

irresistibility; irresistibleness (the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist)

 Context examples 

But the hunger-madness made them terrifying, irresistible.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped, as if arrested by some irresistible force.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Emma, he returned, that view of the question is, at such a moment, irresistible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It had been an irresistible attraction before ever his eyes opened and looked upon it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Professor didn't know what to make of her, and stopped at last to ask with an air of mild surprise that was irresistible. . .

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Venus entered Aquarius on December 20, making you quite irresistible in time for the holiday parties, and will remain until January 13, so this is your best time to socialize.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Sometimes he covered his own face with his left, and sometimes he disdained to use any guard at all, but his springing hits were irresistible.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance, by nameless people, is irresistible; and Anne was all curiosity.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The fact was, as Emma could now acknowledge, that Harriet had always liked Robert Martin; and that his continuing to love her had been irresistible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)