resistible
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of resistible
Explanation
If you're not charmed by or interested in an artist's work, you can describe it as resistible. In other words, you find it easy to resist. You might find a used car salesman's style to be completely resistible, and leave the car lot without spending a dime. Or you could explain that you find the death metal genre of music to be resistible when your friend asks why you won't go to a concert with him. Irresistible is more commonly used than resistible, but both words stem from the Latin resistere, "to resist or withstand," from re, "against," and sistere, "take a stand."
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, the resulting film, Joker: Folie à Deux, was something audiences found entirely resistible.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
She won’t be able to shake them so easily; her premises aren’t resistible enough.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021
It is the resistible force against the movable object.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016
Some of the motifs — for example, a stride while shaking the head from side to side — are eminently resistible.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2011
Internally, the important institutional decisions seem to have been made by a process of accommodation and adaptation, with resistible forces always meeting movable objects.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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