Resilient \Re*sil"i*ent\ (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.]
Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
resilient
adj 1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
2: rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis
ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
[syn: bouncy, live, lively, springy, whippy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, whippy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bouncy, live, lively, springy, whippy
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