resilient

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=sil=ient

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.

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, whippy

ROGET THESAURUS

resilient

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.