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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Resilient \Re*sil"i*ent\ (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.]
     Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  resilient
       adj 1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
       2: rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis
          ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
          [syn: {bouncy}, {live}, {lively}, {springy}, {whippy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

















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