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# resilient

«resilient» in Mova's school dictionary: **A resilient person can recover quickly from hard times or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (resilient, more resilient, most resilient)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A resilient person can recover quickly from hard times or disappointments and keep going. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resilient» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resilient/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.