Word Meanings - IRRESILIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
Related words: (words related to IRRESILIENT)
- RESILIENT
Leaping back; rebounding; recoling. - REBOUND
1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. - INELASTICITY
Want of elasticity. - RECOILMENT
Recoil. - INELASTIC
Not elastic. - RECOIL
fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity - RECOILINGLY
In the manner of a recoil. - RECOILER
One who, or that which, recoils. - IRRESILIENT
Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic. - SURREBOUND
To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.