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resilient

adjective

1 resilient

Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like.

Roget 283: receding etc. v.; retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary etc. ... show more

Roget 325: elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant; ductile, stretchable, extendable.   

2 resilient

Elastic; rebounds readily:
— As resilient as seasoned hickory.

synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, 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 ... show more.

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