Thesaurus results for IRRESISTIBLE

irresistible

adjective

variants also irresistable

as in overwhelming

impossible to resist especially because of strength or attractiveness The force of the waves was irresistible. She had an irresistible craving for chocolate. Women find him irresistible.

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Recent Examples of irresistible The Beauty is about the societal conditions that would make the drug in question so irresistible, updating the plastic surgery satire of Nip/Tuck to raise its eyebrow in the direction of social media, relentless advertising and youthful culture of bullying and peer pressure. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026 For photographers, the opportunity to play with perspective is irresistible. —

Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026 Then the movie was accepted for Venice, and the temptation of the most glamorous paparazzi photo op in all of Italy proved irresistible. —

Matt Tyrnauer, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026 For a local political aspirant seeking to burnish her nativist credentials, the chance to trigger an international incident was apparently irresistible. —

Bobby Ghosh, Time, 18 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for irresistible

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Adjective

Some expressed sympathy for Brooklyn, who was born into overwhelming fame, while others reckoned that his complaints were overblown.

— Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
But a new study published Monday by researchers at the Kiel Institute, an independent economic research institute based in Germany, found that American consumers and importers are paying for the tariffs by an overwhelming margin.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 Jan. 2026