resiliente
adjectiveCEFR B2
What does “resiliente” mean in English?
resilient
resilient (able to recover and adapt despite adversity; applied to people, communities, and systems; la resiliencia)
Example sentences
Las comunidades que tienen redes de solidaridad fuertes son las más resilientes cuando llega una crisis.
Communities with strong solidarity networks are the most resilient when a crisis arrives.
Para construir ciudades más resilientes, hay que diseñar infraestructuras que resistan tanto el cambio climático como las crisis económicas.
To build more resilient cities, we must design infrastructure that withstands both climate change and economic crises.
La resiliencia no consiste en no sentir el dolor, sino en encontrar la forma de seguir adelante a pesar de él.
Resilience is not about not feeling pain, but about finding a way to keep going in spite of it.
How to use it
Resiliente (adjective) means 'resilient' — having the capacity to recover, adapt, and persist despite adversity or shock. It entered Spanish academic and journalistic use from English via psychology and systems theory, and is now fully established. Common collocations: una comunidad/sociedad/economía resiliente; construir sistemas más resilientes. The noun form is la resiliencia. Resiliente can describe both people (psychological resilience) and systems (economic, institutional, infrastructural resilience). It is always positive/aspirational — a quality to be built, not a neutral description.
Common mistake
Resiliente is an Anglicism fully accepted in modern Spanish. Some style guides still prefer resistente (resistant, withstanding force) or adaptable for specific contexts, but resiliente is now standard in journalism, psychology, and policy. Don't confuse with resistente (physically resistant — a resilient material) — resiliente implies bounce-back and adaptive capacity, not just hardness.