Associations to the word «Resistless»
Wiktionary
RESISTLESS, adjective. That cannot be resisted; irresistible. [from 16th c.]
RESISTLESS, adjective. Putting up no resistance; unresisting. [from 16th c.]
Dictionary definition
RESISTLESS, adjective. Impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?".
RESISTLESS, adjective. 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.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.