ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsRresilient
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resilient
Meaning: able to recover quickly from difficulties
resilient in a sentence
How resilient is used in real sentences:
Children are often more resilient than adults expect.
Children are often more resilient than adults expect.
“I also remember how resilient I became during that lonely season.”
— from the passage The Locker Choice
Synonyms for resilient
Other words for resilient — tough, hardy and buoyant — carry the same meaning.
- tough
- hardy
- buoyant
Antonyms of resilient
Words that mean the opposite of resilient:
- fragile
- vulnerable
Where it comes from
From Latin resilire 'to leap back'
Memory hook
RE (back) + SILIENT (spring) — bounces back.