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 →

2) A resilient material can bend or stretch and spring back into shape without breaking. tree →

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 →
• Rubber is a resilient material. tree →
• Children can be very resilient. tree →
• Resilient people learn from mistakes. tree →
• The town was resilient after the flood. tree →
• The team showed it was resilient and won the next game. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.