Irresistible
adjective
Too attractive and tempting to be resisted.
The smell of freshly baked cookies is irresistible.
Often appears as...
- irresistible temptation
- irresistible charm
adjective
Too powerful or convincing to be resisted.
His arguments were irresistible, we had to agree with him.
Often appears as...
- irresistible force
- irresistible appeal
adjective
Too attractive and tempting to be resisted.
The smell of freshly baked cookies is irresistible.
Often appears as...
- irresistible temptation
- irresistible charm
adjective
Too powerful or convincing to be resisted.
His arguments were irresistible, we had to agree with him.
Often appears as...
- irresistible force
- irresistible appeal
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Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
'Irresistible' often implies a strong, positive response towards something very appealing.
The offer of a trip to Paris at half-price was simply irresistible.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Appeal
'Irresistible' is typically used when something appeals greatly to the senses, such as taste or smell.
The aroma from the kitchen was irresistible, making everyone hungry.
Pro Tip 3/3Hyperbolic Speech
The term can be used in a hyperbolic manner to emphasize an exaggeration for effect.
Her laughter was irresistible, filling the room with joy.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
'Irresistible' often implies a strong, positive response towards something very appealing.
The offer of a trip to Paris at half-price was simply irresistible.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Appeal
'Irresistible' is typically used when something appeals greatly to the senses, such as taste or smell.
The aroma from the kitchen was irresistible, making everyone hungry.
Pro Tip 3/3Hyperbolic Speech
The term can be used in a hyperbolic manner to emphasize an exaggeration for effect.
Her laughter was irresistible, filling the room with joy.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
'Irresistible' often implies a strong, positive response towards something very appealing.
The offer of a trip to Paris at half-price was simply irresistible.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Appeal
'Irresistible' is typically used when something appeals greatly to the senses, such as taste or smell.
The aroma from the kitchen was irresistible, making everyone hungry.
Pro Tip 3/3Hyperbolic Speech
The term can be used in a hyperbolic manner to emphasize an exaggeration for effect.
Her laughter was irresistible, filling the room with joy.
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Paper towns and why...
And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
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Tan Le: My immigration...
There was an energy there, an implacable optimism, a strange mixture of humility and daring. So I followed my hunches. I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label "It can't be done" was an irresistible challenge. For a year, we were penniless.
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Lisa Gansky: The future...
is to make sharing irresistible. We have experiences in our lives, certainly, when sharing has been irresistible. It's just, how do we make that recurrent and scale it? We know also, because we're connected in social networks, that it's easy to create delight
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My immigration story -...
there was an energy there an implacable optimism a strange mixture of humility and daring so I followed my hunches I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label it can't be done was an irresistible challenge for a
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
vanilla and they're irresistible my skied through all these willows and all this underbrush smelled my pine and then I realized I was completely stuck and then I heard a crashing like I have never heard coming towards me and I
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The mathematician who...
And I knew that existed. And they had a very good policy, because you could do half your time at your own mathematics, and at least half your time working on their stuff. And they paid a lot. So that was an irresistible pull.
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Aja Monet and phillip...
when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible. For the wizards --
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Penguins Kidnapping...
The newly-walking chicks are irresistible to females that have lost their own chicks or failed to breed. The mother tries to repel the kidnappers with a few well-aimed pecks. But they won't give up.
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See How Easily a Rat Can...
easily sneak into grates or manhole covers open to the street residential sewer pipes feed into the main tunnel a rat might consider this path an irresistible opportunity for
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Mary Lou Jepsen: Could...
And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions. It might be irresistible as a tool
Video examples
Paper towns and why...
And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
Video examples
Tan Le: My immigration...
There was an energy there, an implacable optimism, a strange mixture of humility and daring. So I followed my hunches. I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label "It can't be done" was an irresistible challenge. For a year, we were penniless.
Video examples
Lisa Gansky: The future...
is to make sharing irresistible. We have experiences in our lives, certainly, when sharing has been irresistible. It's just, how do we make that recurrent and scale it? We know also, because we're connected in social networks, that it's easy to create delight
Video examples
My immigration story -...
there was an energy there an implacable optimism a strange mixture of humility and daring so I followed my hunches I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label it can't be done was an irresistible challenge for a
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
vanilla and they're irresistible my skied through all these willows and all this underbrush smelled my pine and then I realized I was completely stuck and then I heard a crashing like I have never heard coming towards me and I
Video examples
The mathematician who...
And I knew that existed. And they had a very good policy, because you could do half your time at your own mathematics, and at least half your time working on their stuff. And they paid a lot. So that was an irresistible pull.
Video examples
Aja Monet and phillip...
when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible. For the wizards --
Video examples
Penguins Kidnapping...
The newly-walking chicks are irresistible to females that have lost their own chicks or failed to breed. The mother tries to repel the kidnappers with a few well-aimed pecks. But they won't give up.
Video examples
See How Easily a Rat Can...
easily sneak into grates or manhole covers open to the street residential sewer pipes feed into the main tunnel a rat might consider this path an irresistible opportunity for
Video examples
Mary Lou Jepsen: Could...
And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions. It might be irresistible as a tool
Example 1 of 10
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Rebecca Stead
American Writer
In so many ways, being a literary agent is an irresistible job to me. Not only does it involve all the things I love - being an advocate for others, problem solving, and going to meetings - yes, that's true, I love meetings, though everyone says it's bizarre! - but most importantly, I love working with people whose writing excites me.
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Dav Pilkey
American Author
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
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Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian Economist
Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.
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Del Close
American Actor
There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.
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Earl Warren
American Judge
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
American Director
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
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Patrick MacGill
Irish Journalist
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
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Sophie Swetchine
Russian Author
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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Jack Nicholson
American Actor
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Rebecca Stead
American Writer
In so many ways, being a literary agent is an irresistible job to me. Not only does it involve all the things I love - being an advocate for others, problem solving, and going to meetings - yes, that's true, I love meetings, though everyone says it's bizarre! - but most importantly, I love working with people whose writing excites me.
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Dav Pilkey
American Author
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
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Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian Economist
Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.
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Del Close
American Actor
There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.
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Earl Warren
American Judge
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
American Director
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
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Patrick MacGill
Irish Journalist
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
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Sophie Swetchine
Russian Author
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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Jack Nicholson
American Actor
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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