IRRESISTIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irresistibly mean? 

• IRRESISTIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb IRRESISTIBLY has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being resisted

  Familiarity information: IRRESISTIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRESISTIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being resisted

Synonyms:

irresistibly; overpoweringly; overwhelmingly

Context example:

the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man

Pertainym:

irresistible (impossible to resist; overpowering)

 Context examples 

There was beauty, and it drew him irresistibly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“What is the conclusion, my dear Mr. Copperfield, to which I am irresistibly brought? Am I wrong in saying, it is clear that we must live?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life—animal life—was not the only thing which could pass away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Emma had no opportunity of speaking to Mr. Knightley till after supper; but, when they were all in the ballroom again, her eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And Laurie folded his hands together with such and imploring gesture, as he spoke in his irresistibly persuasive tone, that it was impossible to frown upon him in spite of his scandalous behavior.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He ran in little zigzags from one knot of people to another, whilst his peculiar appearance drew a running fire of witticisms as he went, so that he reminded me irresistibly of a snipe skimming along through a line of guns.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not now watch the actors; I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectators; my eyes, erewhile fixed on the arch, were now irresistibly attracted to the semicircle of chairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt myself turning sick in anticipation; and as I looked at the gleam of triumph in Wolf Larsen’s eyes, his form swam before me, and I felt almost irresistibly impelled to fling myself upon him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

How can I, when the mere idea of you, married and settled, is so irresistibly funny that I can't keep sober! answered Jo, smiling all over her face, so infectiously that they had another laugh, and then settled down for a good talk, quite in the pleasant old fashion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)