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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective resilient has 2 senses
- resilient(s = adj.all) Array - recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like; Array
- resilient(s = adj.all) bouncy, live, lively, springy - elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" Derived forms verb resile4, verb resile2, noun resilience1, noun resilience2, noun resiliency2, noun resiliency1
CIDE DICTIONARY
resilient, a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.].
Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
resilient, 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.
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.
Derivative
resilience n. resiliency n. resiliently adv.
Etymology
L resiliens resilient- (as RESILE)
THESAURUS
resilient
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, whippyROGET THESAURUS
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Regression
N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.Elasticity
N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.
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