Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not rebounding with the normal or expected velocity.
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- adjective Not
resilient .
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- adjective not resilient
Etymologies
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non- + resilient
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Examples
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Michael's armor was in layers: steel armor, fiberglass matting, more steel armor, layer after layer of hard and nonresilient soft.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Decades of dancing on nonresilient floors - "all those piazzas and squares where they were dancing on cement" - had taken a serious toll on the choreographer.
The Seattle Times 2011
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