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Resilient definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESIL'IENT, a. [L. resiliens.] Leaping or starting back; rebounding.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
2: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin resilient-, resiliens, present participle of resilire to jump back, recoil, from re- + salire to leap — more at sally Date: 1674 characterized or marked by resilience: as a. capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture b. tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Synonyms: see elastic • resiliently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of a substance etc.) recoiling; springing back; resuming its original shape after bending, stretching, compression, etc. 2 (of a person) readily recovering from shock, depression, etc.; buoyant. Derivatives: resilience n. resiliency n. resiliently adv. Etymology: L resiliens resilient- (as RESILE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Resilient Re*sil"i*ent (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.] Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something that is resilient is strong and not easily damaged by being hit, stretched, or squeezed. ...an armchair of some resilient plastic material. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • resilience Do your muscles have the strength and resilience that they should have? N-UNCOUNT: also a N 2. People and things that are resilient are able to recover easily and quickly from unpleasant or damaging events. When the U.S. stock market collapsed in October 1987, the Japanese stock market was the most resilient. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • resilience ...the resilience of human beings to fight after they've been attacked. N-UNCOUNT: also a N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Rebounding, recoiling, elastic, springy.

Moby Thesaurus

able to adapt, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, airy, alterable, alterative, bouncing, bouncy, bounding, breezy, buoyant, carefree, changeable, checkered, convalescent, corky, debonair, effervescent, elastic, ever-changing, expansive, extensile, flexible, flexile, fluid, free and easy, impermanent, jaunty, kaleidoscopic, light, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, movable, mutable, nonuniform, perky, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling, recuperative, recuperatory, repercussive, responsive, reviviscent, rubbery, springing, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, transient, transitory, variable, volatile, whippy