resilient

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
resilient
    adj 1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the
           like
    2: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively
       tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy
       turf" [syn: {bouncy}, {live}, {lively}, {resilient},
       {springy}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Resilient \Re*sil"i*ent\ (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.]
   Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "resilient":
      able to adapt, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, airy, alterable,
      alterative, bouncing, bouncy, bounding, breezy, buoyant, carefree,
      changeable, checkered, convalescent, corky, debonair, effervescent,
      elastic, ever-changing, expansive, extensile, flexible, flexile,
      fluid, free and easy, impermanent, jaunty, kaleidoscopic, light,
      lighthearted, lightsome, lively, malleable, many-sided,
      metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, movable, mutable, nonuniform,
      perky, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, rebounding,
      recalcitrant, recoiling, recuperative, recuperatory, repercussive,
      responsive, reviviscent, rubbery, springing, springy, stretch,
      stretchable, stretchy, supple, transient, transitory, variable,
      volatile, whippy
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