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Irresistible

That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction.

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Attractive 84% connected

Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.

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Attractive 84% connected

Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.

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Overpowering 84% connected

of Overpower

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Overpowering 84% connected

of Overpower

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Overwhelming 84% connected

of Overwhelm

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Overwhelming 84% connected

of Overwhelm

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Irresistibility 74% connected

The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness.

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Irresistibility 74% connected

The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness.

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Resistless 92% connected

Having no power to resist; making no opposition.

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Resistible 94% connected

Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.

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Resistible 94% connected

Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.

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Affinity noun · 78% connection

A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the m…

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Answer noun · 78% connection

To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.

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Antiperistasis noun · 78% connection

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite…

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Antirenter noun · 78% connection

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the…

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Astonishment noun · 78% connection

The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of s…

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Bottomry noun · 78% connection

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

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Carry verb · 78% connection

To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a succes…

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

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Counterbrace verb · 78% connection

To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

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Destiny noun · 78% connection

The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in…

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Drift noun · 78% connection

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

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Ecstasy noun · 78% connection

The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impr…

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Electricity noun · 78% connection

A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, th…

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Feud noun · 78% connection

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

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Gravitation noun · 78% connection

That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also att…

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Gravitational attraction noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Gravitational force noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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Gravity noun · 78% connection

(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near it…

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