Definition of irresistibly in English:
irresistibly
adverb ɪrɪˈzɪstɪbliˌɪ(r)rəˈzɪstəbli
1In a way that is too attractive and tempting to be resisted.
men are irresistibly attracted to her
their eyes were drawn irresistibly back to the house
Example sentencesExamples
- The spectacular firework display finale is a charming end to an irresistibly likeable performance.
- The ridges formed by the edges of the underlying shapes interrupt the smoothness of the glossy surfaces and provide the works with an irresistibly tactile appeal.
- Why these kids find him irresistibly cool is beyond me.
- You get off the train and walk south, drawn irresistibly towards the mighty red portico carved out of the building itself.
- It's a comfortable, irresistibly charming place to visit.
- She is the movie's sexpot, a siren that irresistibly attracts men.
- Although he was notoriously ugly, he was irresistibly attractive to women.
- His performances are irresistibly vivacious, dramatic, and rhythmically compelling.
- Women were the vortex personified for Hitchcock, alluring sirens that drew you irresistibly to your doom.
- The film's closing track is an irresistibly jovial Irish jig.
- 1.1 In a way that is too powerful or convincing to be resisted.
I am irresistibly reminded of the advice of a friend of mine
Example sentencesExamples
- There is nothing ostensibly subversive about the images in theological terms, but they seem irresistibly to evoke the vicious pagan anti-type.
- He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness.
- The viewer is irresistibly embroiled in the act of creation, and thereby marked forever with the power of his gorgeous creations.
- We still irresistibly trust that those carved stones can somehow vault us over the millennia to a kind of psychic and even perceptual proximity to their subject.
- The spiraling open-air ramp irresistibly recalls the gravity-defying swirls of Tecton's penguin pool.
- The arrival of the beard in the late 1870s irresistibly suggests a change in Brahms, a retreat from a young romantic view into the severe classicism of the crusty bachelor.
- His nostrils itched irresistibly, and through a series of sneezes the truth exploded.
- This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.
- The equation of human life with a transitory show struck Shakespeare's contemporaries as irresistibly true.
- The facts that bear a peculiar character irresistibly suggest a peculiar cause.
Definition of irresistibly in US English:
irresistibly
adverbˌɪ(r)rəˈzɪstəbliˌi(r)rəˈzistəblē
1In a way that is too attractive and tempting to be resisted.
men are irresistibly attracted to her
their eyes were drawn irresistibly back to the house
Example sentencesExamples
- The spectacular firework display finale is a charming end to an irresistibly likeable performance.
- Why these kids find him irresistibly cool is beyond me.
- The ridges formed by the edges of the underlying shapes interrupt the smoothness of the glossy surfaces and provide the works with an irresistibly tactile appeal.
- She is the movie's sexpot, a siren that irresistibly attracts men.
- Women were the vortex personified for Hitchcock, alluring sirens that drew you irresistibly to your doom.
- Although he was notoriously ugly, he was irresistibly attractive to women.
- The film's closing track is an irresistibly jovial Irish jig.
- It's a comfortable, irresistibly charming place to visit.
- His performances are irresistibly vivacious, dramatic, and rhythmically compelling.
- You get off the train and walk south, drawn irresistibly towards the mighty red portico carved out of the building itself.
- 1.1 In a way that is too powerful or convincing to be resisted.
I am irresistibly reminded of the advice of a friend of mine
Example sentencesExamples
- We still irresistibly trust that those carved stones can somehow vault us over the millennia to a kind of psychic and even perceptual proximity to their subject.
- The spiraling open-air ramp irresistibly recalls the gravity-defying swirls of Tecton's penguin pool.
- The facts that bear a peculiar character irresistibly suggest a peculiar cause.
- The equation of human life with a transitory show struck Shakespeare's contemporaries as irresistibly true.
- The viewer is irresistibly embroiled in the act of creation, and thereby marked forever with the power of his gorgeous creations.
- There is nothing ostensibly subversive about the images in theological terms, but they seem irresistibly to evoke the vicious pagan anti-type.
- This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.
- The arrival of the beard in the late 1870s irresistibly suggests a change in Brahms, a retreat from a young romantic view into the severe classicism of the crusty bachelor.
- He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness.
- His nostrils itched irresistibly, and through a series of sneezes the truth exploded.