Synonyms for resilient
rɪˈzɪl yəntre·silient

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1. resilientadjective

   Synonyms:
   flexible, bendable, strong

   Antonyms:
   brittle, fragile

2. resilientadjective

   Able to endure tribulation without cracking.

   Synonyms:
   strong, bendable, flexible

   Antonyms:
   fragile, brittle

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1. resilientadjective

   recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like

   Synonyms:
   springy, lively, bouncy, live

   Antonyms:
   inelastic, spiritless

2. bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springyadjective

   elastic; rebounds readily

   "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"

   Synonyms:
   spirited, hot, spanking, live, lively, full of life, alive(p), bouncy, snappy, vital, brisk, racy, rattling, peppy, merry, alive, unrecorded, zippy, bouncing, springy, live(a), alert

   Antonyms:
   spiritless, inelastic

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1. resilientadjective

   Synonyms:
   rebounding, recoiling, elastic, springy

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1. List of paraphrases for "resilient":

   resistant, elastic, resilience, flexible, resistive, hard-wearing, sturdy, rugged, robust, adaptable, adaptive

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How to use resilient in a sentence?

1. White Sox starter James Shields:

   It crushes us in this clubhouse, and nothing really matters baseball-wise when something like that happens, when you see one of your brothers go down like that, it's not very fun to watch. He's such a resilient human being and we're praying for him. We hope everything goes well.

2. Director Kristalina Georgieva:

   What we do now will not only reshape our economies and societies ; it will also reshape humanity's future on this planet, a' green recovery' is our bridge to a more resilient future.

3. James Galbraith:

   Originally I didn't think we'd be able to hang on this long, it's amazing how resilient the country is, but if we miss the coming spring -- that'll put a nail in the coffin.

4. Goldman Sachs economists:

   Progress in deepening Euro area risk-sharing and risk reduction mechanisms to make the single currency framework more resilient continues, but the pace is slow, while those initiatives remain incomplete, the euro area remains more vulnerable to economic slowdown and financial disruption than other jurisdictions.

5. Kevin Reed:

   Climate Change is not just a problem 70 years from now ; Climate Change is here and Climate Change's impacting our weather on a day-to-day basis, we need to adapt and make our systems more resilient, but we have to use this as a sense to inform decision-making about how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels that produce these greenhouse gases.