Definition of resistless

"resistless" in the adjective sense

1. irresistible, resistless

impossible to resist overpowering

"irresistible (or resistless) impulses"

"what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?"

2. resistless, unresisting

offering no resistance

"resistless hostages"

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Quotations for resistless

Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all. [ Carlyle ]

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. [ Hazlitt ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

resistless in Scrabble®

The word resistless is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters resistless:

RESISTLESS
(99)
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (8 words)

relists, resists, retiles, sessile, sisters, sterile, tieless, tresses

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word resistless

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In resistless

RESISTLESS
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resistless in Words With Friends™

The word resistless is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters resistless:

RESISTLESS
(153)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (8 words)

relists, resists, retiles, sessile, sisters, sterile, tieless, tresses

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word resistless

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In resistless

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Words containing the sequence resistless

Words that start with resistless (3 words)

Words with resistless in them (1 word)

Words that end with resistless (1 word)

Word Growth involving resistless

Shorter words in resistless

ess less

is resist

re resist

Longer words containing resistless

resistlessly

resistlessness