resilient
adjective/rɪˈzɪliənt/
/rɪˈzɪliənt/
- able to recover quickly after something unpleasant such as shock, injury, etc.
- He'll get over it—young people are amazingly resilient.
- These plants are very resilient to rough handling.
Extra Examples- a pretty resilient plant
- a remarkably resilient woman
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- to
- (of a substance) returning to its original shape after being bent, stretched, or pressedTopics Physics and chemistryc2
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin resilient- ‘leaping back’, from the verb resilire ‘to recoil’, from re- ‘back’ + salire ‘to jump’.
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