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Meaning of RESISTLESS

Pronunciation:  ri'zistlis

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  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
  2. [adj]  impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"
 

RESISTLESS is a 10 letter word that starts with R.

 

 Synonyms: inactive, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming, passive, supine, unresisting
 
 Antonyms: resistible
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Re*sist"less\, a.
1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or
   R.] --Spenser.

2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.

         Masters' commands come with a power resistless To
         such as owe them absolute subjection. --Milton.
   -- {Re*sist"less*ly}, adv. -- {Re*sist"less*ness}, n.

 

 

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