RESILIENT meaning: Able to recover quickly from adversity

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word resilient:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

resilient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resilient: Merriam-Webster
resilient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
resilient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
resilient: Collins English Dictionary
resilient: Vocabulary.com
Resilient, resilient: Wordnik
resilient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
resilient: Wiktionary
resilient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
resilient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
resilient: Infoplease Dictionary
resilient: Dictionary.com
resilient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Resilient (album), Resilient, The Resilient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Resilient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
resilient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
resilient: Rhymezone
resilient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
resilient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
resilient: FreeDictionary.org
resilient: Mnemonic Dictionary
resilient: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

resilient: Legal dictionary
resilient: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

resilient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

resilient: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
resilient: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

resilient: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Similar:

elastic, live, lively, spirited, bouncy, springy, whippy, resiliant, elastical, elastick, more...

Opposite:

fragile, delicate, brittle

Types:

tough, durable, sturdy, strong, hardy, more...

Phrases:

fault resilient, Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, opposite of resilient, mentally resilient, more...

Adjectives:

more, least, error, career, orthogonal, weather, stress, leakage, strong, independent

Colors:

emerald, teal, forest green, navy blue, indigo, more...