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UK
/ɹɪzˈɔːsfəl/
]
[ US /ɹiˈsɔɹsfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈsɔɹsfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having inner resources; adroit or imaginative
the most resourceful cook in town
someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations
an able and resourceful politician
How To Use resourceful In A Sentence
- They require committed resourceful parents who will be able to rise to the challenges they will face over the years.
- The title of the first poem refers to the resourcefulness required to ride out tropical storms.
- There is what Maximus and others called a 'theandric', a divine-human reality going on there, and the icon, the image of Jesus Christ represents that theandric reality - the interweaving (not fusion or confusion) of the endless, divine resourcefulness of agency and love with the particularities of a human life. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
- She is very resourceful and thrifty, but her face is always expressionless, except for an occasional look of fear.
- Would they be as quick to label our resourceful young law student a jerk (or much worse) if he were black? The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student
- It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
- They are resourceful people and impromptu is the mode of operation they most relish. 5 To the River « Unknowing
- It is on account of this tricky instinct of the rhea that the gauchos say, "El avestruz es el mas _gaucho_ de los animales," which means that the ostrich, in its resourcefulness and the tricks it practises to save itself when hard pressed, is as clever as the gaucho knows himself to be. Far Away and Long Ago
- They were a resourceful and talented people.
- A media plan is a lot of things: part innovation, part resourcefulness, part luck.