Resourceful
[rɪ'sɔːsfl] or [rɪ'sɔrsfl]
Definition
(adj.) having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; 'someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations'; 'an able and resourceful politician'; 'the most resourceful cook in town' .
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of resources.
Typist: Richard
Examples
- The Colonel was always resourceful, and didn't fail in this case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had been far more thorough and more resourceful than those Europeans who had for some time experimented with aviation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Some of the roads in Greater New York have been anxious to secure such cars, and, as usual, the most resourceful electrical engineer and inventor of his times has made the effort. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Wigs were the fashion, and Arkwright had an excellent process, and was an energetic and resourceful dealer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The modern life of the world, however, has been replete with the resourceful expedients of the engineer, and the ingenious instrumentalities invented by him to carry out his plans. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You are a resourceful man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Richard