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resistless

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re·sist·less  (r-zstls)
adj.
1. Impossible to resist; irresistible: resistless force; resistless love.
2. Powerless to resist; unresisting.
re·sistless·ly adv.
re·sistless·ness n.
resistless [rɪˈzɪstlɪs]
adj Archaic
1. unresisting
2. irresistible
resistlessly  adv
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Adj.1.resistless - impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
irresistible
2.resistlessresistless - 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
unresisting, supine
passive, inactive - lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith


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Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
The cold was not severe, but the storm was quiet and resistless.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
Yet in the interval since Crick's last view of them something had occurred which changed the pivot of the universe for their two natures; something which, had he known its quality, the dairyman would have despised, as a practical man; yet which was based upon a more stubborn and resistless tendency than a whole heap of so-called practicalities.
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