returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
3.
recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant.
Origin: 1635–45; < Latinresilient- (stem of resiliēns), present participle of resilīre to spring back, equivalent to re-re- + -sil-, combining form of salīre to leap, jump + -ent--ent); see salient