irresistible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   overpoweringly attractive

   irresistible beauty

2. 2
   adj

   Impossible to resist.

   Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march, where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the market-place, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a torrent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world.

3. 3
   adj

   impossible to resist

4. 4
   adj

   Compellingly attractive.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin irresistibilis, equivalent to ir- + resistible.