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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope