[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

resilient \resil"ient\ -ent, a. l. resiliens, p. pr.
   leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

resilient
     adj 1: recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
     2: rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis
        ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
        syn: bouncy, live, lively, springy, whippy
see also:
bouncy live lively springy whippy 

[3] : 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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