Boost your English with daily English vocabulary posts. Today’s word, resilient, helps describe strength in tough times.
Resilient (Adjective)
Resilient Meaning:
Able to recover quickly from difficulties or bounce back after setbacks.
Synonyms:
Tough, adaptable
Context: Great for talking about people facing challenges, economies recovering, or materials that withstand pressure– common in motivation, business, sports, or disaster stories.
Examples:
- After losing his job during the economic crisis in Spain, he stayed resilient and started his own small business within months.
- In South Africa’s negotiations, leaders were pragmatic, compromising on key issues to end apartheid and form a stable democracy.
Related Forms:
- Resilience (noun): The quality or ability to recover quickly. Example: The resilience of New Zealand’s economy helped it recover faster than expected after the global financial downturn.
- Resiliently (adverb): In a way that bounces back quickly. Example: She resiliently handled the criticism and continued pursuing her dreams in the competitive music industry of South Korea.
- Nonresilient (adjective): Not able to recover easily (negative form). Example: Older bridges in some European cities proved nonresilient during heavy floods and required major repairs.
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