resistless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective impossible to resist; overpowering
    irresistible.
    • irresistible (or resistless) impulses
    • what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
  2. adjective satellite offering no resistance
    supine; unresisting.
    • resistless hostages
    • No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt

WordNet


Re*sist"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Obs. or R. Spenser.
  2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
    Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton.
    -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness, n.

Webster 1913