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# resilient

adjective (resilient, more resilient, most resilient)

«resilient» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A resilient person can recover quickly from hard times or disappointments and keep going. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#m1)
2. A resilient material can bend or stretch and spring back into shape without breaking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#m2)

### In the lessons

In wellbeing and PSHE lessons resilience is bouncing back after mistakes; in science, resilient materials like rubber spring back. Phrases: resilient children, a resilient material.

### Examples

- She was resilient and tried again after failing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x1)
- Rubber is a resilient material. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x2)
- Children can be very resilient. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x3)
- Resilient people learn from mistakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x4)
- The town was resilient after the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x5)
- The team showed it was resilient and won the next game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#x6)

### Note

Noun: resilience. Being resilient does not mean you never feel sad; it means you recover and carry on.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «resilient» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«resilient» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/resilient.html) on Mova free.