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irresistible in English:

1. resistible



English word "irresistible"(resistible) occurs in sets:

negative prefixes

2. resist


I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.
resist change
Give me the strength to resist the temptation. / 2. There are always those who resist progress. / 3. You resist what can bring you peace. / 4. I'm pretty sure I can resist you.
However long it takes; we will resist the enemy and we will never give up.
Couldn't resist telling the dentist "yeh it makes me feel numb" when he asked me did I have any problems with local anaesthetic.
Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.
Even though we resist this by all means — it is a fact.
I resist being tempted to spend a lot of money on clothes.
Children usually resist their parents' tyranny, rebel against them and eventually confront them. I couldn't resist buying such a beautiful dress.
They are determined to resist pressure to change the law. / The bank strongly resisted cutting interest rates. / I can never resist the urge to laugh.
Learn the rules of rugby and you will be unable to resist it
The ​soldiers resisted (the ​enemy ​attacks) for two ​days. I can never resist ​temptation/​chocolate/the ​urge to ​laugh. The ​party ​leader resisted ​demands for his ​resignation.
This material resists water very well. This material is highly water resistant. This is an extremely water-resistant material. This material has very good resistance to water. his material has excellent water resistance.

English word "irresistible"(resist) occurs in sets:

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3. totally irresistible



English word "irresistible"(totally irresistible) occurs in sets:

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4. utterly irresistible



5. compelling


There was compelling evidence in her defence.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
When speaking to a business audience, you need a compelling point.
compelling argument
Its compeling design. A compelling argument changed my opinion.
It was a compelling story about the love beetween two people.
it's your job to present this data in a compelling manner.
When he does these things, his music is at its most compelling.
The lawyer's argument was so compelling, the jury were all convinced by it immediately.
She had a compelling need to share what she had heard
He made a compelling argument. I would need a very compelling reason to leave my job.
All these make such activities compelling to many developers.
compelling ​evidence. I ​found the ​whole ​film very compelling.
The stories were so compelling that I decided to write a book about them.
It’s the name of a French publishing house, a character in Sergei Prokofiev’s opera, The Love for Three Oranges, and a film by Werner Herzog composed solely of desert landscape images. The enduring popularity of the term shows how compelling it

6. unable to stop