English edit

Etymology edit

From ir- +‎ resist +‎ -less.

Adjective edit

irresistless (comparative more irresistless, superlative most irresistless)

  1. (obsolete) Irresistable.
    • 1693, Thomas Yalden, “To His Friend Captain Chamberline; in Love with a Lady He Had Taken in an Algeriene Prize at Sea”, in Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems. [], London: [] R. E. for Jacob Tonson, [], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 398:
      When Beauty in Diſtreſs appears, / An irreſiſtleſs Charm it bears: / In every Breaſt does pity move, / Pity, the tender'ſt part of Love.
    • 1759, James Grainger (translator), The Elegies of Tibullus, London: A. Millar, Elegy 5, p. 89,[1]
      Eternal Rome shall rise, where now ye brouze:
      Rome, that shall stretch her irresistless Reign
      Wherever Ceres views her golden Grain;