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Irresistible

//ˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Compellingly attractive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    overpoweringly attractive wordnet
  2. 2
    impossible to resist; overpowering wordnet

Etymology

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

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