Word Meanings - RESILIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESILIENT)

• Elastic
• Ductile
• extensile
• alterable
• resilient
• modifiable
• flexible
• buoyant
• springy
• Renitent
• Resistent
• elastic
• reluctant
• stubborn
• tough
• counteractive

Related words: (words related to RESILIENT)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• RENITENT
  strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle 1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impluse by elastic force. " soft and yet renitent." Ray. 2. Persistently opposed.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• ELASTICITY
  1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• ELASTICALLY
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• MODIFIABLE
  Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
• RELUCTANTLY
  In a reluctant manner.
• STUBBORN
  Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn
• COUNTERACTIVELY
  By counteraction.
• RELUCTANT
  1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell. 2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• INALTERABLE
  Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable. -- In*al"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*al"ter*a*bly, adv.
• GELASTIC
  Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.