irresistible

/ˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/

adj 2

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, prove | become | remain

make sb/sth

The smell of fresh chocolate cake made dessert irresistible for the children.

find sb/sth

Many people find chocolate cake irresistible, especially when it's freshly baked.

ADV

quite, totally | almost | simply

apparently, seemingly

The smell of fresh pizza from the bakery was seemingly irresistible to all the children in the neighborhood.

somehow

PREP

The smell of fresh chocolate cake was irresistible to everyone at the party.

Definitions

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.

Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...

Compellingly attractive.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — impossible to resist

resistless

Antonyms

resistible

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...

Wiktionary

You're irresistible.

Tatoeba · #1823

The Dodgers went on winning with irresistible force.

Tatoeba · #38028

The urge to brag on his recent successes was irresistible.

Tatoeba · #300621

The further I went the more irresistible became the feeling that I was going round and round in circles.

Tatoeba · #328342

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