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Definition of resistless in English: resistlessadjective rɪˈzɪs(t)ləsrəˈzɪstləs archaic 1Powerful and irresistible. 〈古〉不可抗拒的，按捺不住的 按捺不住的冲动。 Example sentencesExamples - It gives a particular direction to every sentiment and action, and carries a man forward, as by a kind of resistless impulse, or insuperable destiny.
- Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidence of its resistless fury.
- For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force.
- The reason for this, Brown felt, was that men reach the chapter, and ‘the disposition to inquire is lost in the resistless impulse to adore.’
- Every race carries in its mental constitution the laws of its destiny, and it is, perhaps, these laws that it obeys with a resistless impulse.
- 1.1 Powerless to resist the effect of someone or something; unresisting.
无力抵抗的，不抵抗的 Example sentencesExamples - Its doctrine-implied passive and resistless attitude. Masters advised followers to control their emotions and to calm their minds.
- Her first song is filled with autumn imagery of fading life, reflecting the loneliness and despair of one who sees only a resistless need to fall into the deep sleep of death as the darkness of winter comes on.
- I pictured to myself the emotional agonies, the tempests of passion, the lust of greed, the calm, subdued, resistless attitude of despair which at times found expression by the sale of mothers or fathers, brothers or sisters, wives or husbands, sweethearts or friends.
Synonyms impotent, helpless, without power, ineffectual, inadequate, ineffective, with no say, useless, defenceless, vulnerable, weak, feeble, paralysed
Derivativesadverb archaic When, after the land had again been laid dry through elevation, the northern torrents swept resistlessly on to the sea, the city was again deluged by a sea of water, this time fresh, whose surface rose to an altitude corresponding to the pinnacles of many of our tallest church spires. Example sentencesExamples - In the fall of the year this luxuriant growth of grass would be set on fire by the Indians or hunters, and especially when the wind was high would sweep resistlessly over the prairies, forming a spectacle, especially at night, that was at once magnificent and terrifying.
- Worth would have fallen but for the strong hand that upheld him, and dragged him resistlessly forward.
Definition of resistless in US English: resistlessadjectiverəˈzɪstləsrəˈzistləs archaic 1Powerful and irresistible. 〈古〉不可抗拒的，按捺不住的 按捺不住的冲动。 Example sentencesExamples - For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force.
- It gives a particular direction to every sentiment and action, and carries a man forward, as by a kind of resistless impulse, or insuperable destiny.
- The reason for this, Brown felt, was that men reach the chapter, and ‘the disposition to inquire is lost in the resistless impulse to adore.’
- Every race carries in its mental constitution the laws of its destiny, and it is, perhaps, these laws that it obeys with a resistless impulse.
- Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidence of its resistless fury.
- 1.1 Powerless to resist the effect of someone or something; unresisting.
无力抵抗的，不抵抗的 Example sentencesExamples - Its doctrine-implied passive and resistless attitude. Masters advised followers to control their emotions and to calm their minds.
- I pictured to myself the emotional agonies, the tempests of passion, the lust of greed, the calm, subdued, resistless attitude of despair which at times found expression by the sale of mothers or fathers, brothers or sisters, wives or husbands, sweethearts or friends.
- Her first song is filled with autumn imagery of fading life, reflecting the loneliness and despair of one who sees only a resistless need to fall into the deep sleep of death as the darkness of winter comes on.
Synonyms impotent, helpless, without power, ineffectual, inadequate, ineffective, with no say, useless, defenceless, vulnerable, weak, feeble, paralysed
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