irresistible
/ɪrɪˈzɪstɪb(ə)l
/adjective
1Too attractive and tempting to be resisted: he found the delicious-looking cakes irresistible...
- A woman's rampant desires and irresistible attractiveness give her a power over men that even rivals God's.
- No wonder Charlie finds him irresistible, though that attraction is something the film refuses to explore.
- I will teach you to become the most graceful, flattering, attractive, irresistible lady at court.
Synonyms
tempting, enticing, alluring, inviting, seductive;
attractive, desirable, fetching, glamorous, appealing;
captivating, ravishing, beguiling, enchanting, fascinating, tantalizing
informal, dated come-hither
1.1Too powerful or convincing to be resisted: she felt an irresistible urge to object...
- Unless I'm attacked by an irresistible urge to extravagance I don't buy flowers for the house any more.
- Every generation of adults exhibits an irresistible urge to complain about the young.
- That is the irresistible conclusion to be drawn from long-term trends like the household income data.
Synonyms
uncontrollable, overwhelming, overpowering, compelling, compulsive, besetting, irrepressible, ungovernable;
unavoidable, inescapable, unpreventable, inexorable, driving, forceful, potent, oppressive, imperative, urgent;
obsessive
Derivatives
irresistibility
/ noun ...- Royalty must be like this too, in the irresistibility of its appeal, the tragedy of its legacy.
- Rex Irwin, better placed than most to comment on creating an aura of irresistibility, calls him a ‘wonderful salesman’.
- The irresistibility of others’ laughter has its roots in the neurological mechanism of laugh detection.
irresistibleness
Origin
Late 16th century: from medieval Latin irresistibilis, from in- 'not' + resistibilis (from resistere 'resist').
Rhymes
- capital-to-output ratio
- capital transfer tax
- capital value
- capital vice
- capital vise
- capital widening
- capital–labor
- capital–labour
- capital–output ratio
- capitana
- capitanate
- Capitan China
- capitano
- Capitan Pasha
- capitao
- capitao mor
- capitate
- capitate bone
- capitation
- capitation allowance
- capitation fee
- capitation grant
- capitation payment
- capitation tax
- capitative