Definitions

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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