Word Meanings - IRRESILIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Related words: (words related to IRRESILIENT)

• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• RECOILMENT
  Recoil.
• INELASTIC
  Not elastic.
• RECOIL
  fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity
• RECOILINGLY
  In the manner of a recoil.
• RECOILER
  One who, or that which, recoils.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.