Usually means: Able to recover quickly from adversity.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word resilient:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. resilient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resilient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resilient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resilient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resilient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resilient, resilient: Wordnik
  7. resilient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. resilient: Wiktionary
  9. resilient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. resilient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. resilient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. resilient: Dictionary.com
  13. resilient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Resilient (album), Resilient, The Resilient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Resilient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. resilient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. resilient: Rhymezone
  18. resilient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. resilient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. resilient: Free Dictionary
  21. resilient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. resilient: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. resilient: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resilient: Legal dictionary
  2. resilient: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resilient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resilient: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resilient: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See resiliently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
adjective:  (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
adjective:  Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
adjective:  (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.

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