Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not resilient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
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- adjective Not
resilient ; not recoiling or rebounding;inelastic .
Etymologies
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ir- + resilient
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Examples
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His cheeks were pink, soft to the touch, with the irresilient softness of age, like the skin of a peach that has been scalded.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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