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Resilient   /rɪzˈɪljənt/   Listen
Resilient

adjective
1.
Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like.
2.
Elastic; rebounds readily.  Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy.  "A lively tennis ball" , "As resilient as seasoned hickory" , "Springy turf"





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"Resilient" Quotes from Famous Books



... of resilient relief which a man feels on discharging an impossible task, or throwing off too heavy a burden, came over me. Miriam was rescued, the priest restored, and I dowered with God's best gift—the love of a noble, fair woman. Hard duty's compulsion no longer spurred me; but my thoughts still ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
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... wild place in Alaska, and had nearly starved himself that the sick man's strength might not fail him utterly. He had remembered—had Ches Mason; and, being one of those tenacious souls who cling to friendship and to a resilient faith in the good that is in the worst of us, he had thrown out a tentative life-line, as it were, and hoped that Ford might clutch it before he became quite submerged in the sodden morass ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
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Words linked to "Resilient" :   resiliency, live, resilience, lively, elastic, resile, spirited


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