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Resilient

adjective

Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like.

Elastic; rebounds readily. Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy. "A lively tennis ball" , "As resilient as seasoned hickory" , "Springy turf"

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Etymology of 'Resilient'

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"Resilient" Quotes from Famous Books

... lighting; but some bits of paper and oddments on the top of the coal showed that it was not freshly laid. The grate had a hob at one side, and on this was a small, bright tin kettle. The bed was clearly a good bed, resilient, softly garnished. On it was stretched a long, striped garment of flannel, with old-fashioned pearl buttons at neck and sleeves. An honest garment, quite surely unshrinkable! No doubt in the sixties, long before the mind of man had leaped to the fine perverse conception of the decorated pyjama, ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... the dismantled atomic engine with him. He walked slowly, pretending more stiffness and weakness than he really owned to. No use in letting his captors know that his resilient muscles were so quickly throwing off the torment ...

— The Red Hell of Jupiter • Paul Ernst

... into a creature of life and light and beauty, a constant delight to all who knew her. She had a way of embroidering life with stars. She was dowered with all the charming characteristics of both parents, with a resilient vitality and activity which had pertained to neither of them. When she was ten years old she had packed all hirelings off, and kept house for her father for six delightful years—years in which they were father and daughter, brother and sister, ...

— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... blithely young as though they had never known the scourging of sleet or the blight of wind. The world was abloom, and the girl, too, was in her early June, and sentiently alive with the strength of its full pulse-tide. She was slim and lithely resilient of step. Her listening attitude was as eloquent of pausing elasticity as that of the gray squirrel. Her breathing was soft, though she had come down a steep mountainside, and as fragrant as the breath of the elder bushes that dashed the banks with white sprays of blossom. She brought with ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

Words linked to "Resilient" : elastic, live, resilience, resiliency, spirited, bouncy, resile