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Resilient

adjective

Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like.

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

... moss of the sea-bottom there had been no spoor to follow, for the soft pads of the thoat but pressed down in his swift passage the resilient vegetation which sprang up again behind his fleeting feet, leaving ...

— Thuvia, Maid of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... that fairly met across the way. In summer, over sidewalk and roadway alike rested a dense, refreshing dark shadow that seemed to throw from itself an odour of coolness. This was rendered further attractive by the warm spicy odour of damp pine that arose from the resilient surface of sawdust and shingles broken beneath the wheels of traffic. Back from these trees, in wide, well-cultivated lawns, stood the better residences. They were almost invariably built of many corners, with steep roofs meeting each other at all angles, with wide and ornamented red ...

— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... saline meadows, lush and warm, where ditches serpentine between barriers of meadowsweet, briers and fat grasses. Nearer to the sea the levels are of moist sand covered with a close matting of thyme, and herbage as close and resilient as moss, levels that are not green, like fields, but golden, and of a texture that reflects the light, so that these plains seem to have ...

— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson

... Youth is resilient. One would scarce have believed that this girl bubbling over with life and spirits was the same one who had been in such hopeless despair ...

— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... hub. Following October 1990, however, a tentative peace has enabled the central government to begin restoring control in Beirut, collect taxes, and regain access to key port and government facilities. The battered economy has also been propped up by a financially sound banking system and resilient small- and medium-scale manufacturers. Family remittances, foreign financial support to political factions, the narcotics trade, and international emergency aid are main sources of foreign exchange. Economic prospects for 1991 have brightened, particularly if ...

— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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