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Definition: Resourceful |
ResourcefulAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resourceful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Crosswords: Resourceful |
| English words defined with "resourceful": apt ♦ clever ♦ quick-witted ♦ resourcefully. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Resourceful Dachshund (1915) Resourceful Lovers (1911) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Known to be large, resourceful, solvent and financially stable, new-to-market American insurance companies can comfortably and competitively operate in the Saudi market. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | In the short term, many forecasters see a pick-up in economic growth in late 2001 or early 2002. At root, Taiwanese are hardworking, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The most resourceful industrialized country on earth ranks among the last in the rate of economic growth. |
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| "Resourceful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.25% of the time. "Resourceful" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.25% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "resourceful": resourceful person. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "resourceful": ever-resourceful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
resourceful | 12 |
inc product resourceful | 3 |
renovator resourceful | 2 |
resourceful woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "resourceful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واسع الحيلة (shifty), حازق (ingenious, nimble, smart), ثعلب (fox), داهية (adroit, artful, astute, pawky, quizzical, shifty, shrewd, sly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съобразителен (acute, clearheaded, cute, flexible, peart, tricky, wide awake), находчив (adroit, clever, ingenious, inventive, mercurial, quick-witted, ready-witted, shifty, smart), изобретателен (clever, ingenious, inventive, originative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 机智勇敢. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vynalézavý (ingenious, inventive, pregnant), dùmyslný (inventive, natty, nifty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرمایه ومبتکر, کاردان (Deft, Technician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neuvokas (inventive), kekseliäs (ingenious, inventive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plein de ressource, ingénieux, de ressource. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | findig (resourcefully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπάτσοσ (astute, plausible), πολυμήχανοσ (cunning, ingenious), εύποροσ (thrifty, well off, well to do). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בעל תושי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | találékony (artful, good contriver, ingenious, inventive, knacky, mercurial, originative), leleményes (daedal, gumptious, have the bump for invention, inventive, mercurial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pieno di risorse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 才略の有る . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいりゃくのある. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | '부한 (Abundant, Bounteous, Bountiful, Copious, Wealthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | couyragh (benefit, benefit as match, healing, remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esourcefulray rico (abundant, affluent, costly, crummy, flush, livery stable, money-grubbing, opulent, plentiful, plumose, plump, podded, pregnant, racy, rich, saturated, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do, well-off), engenhoso (canny, ingenious, skilful, skillful), desembaraçado (clear, clinking, disengagement, free, free and easy, spanking, sprightly, unashamed, unencumbered, untrammelled), com muitos meios, cheio de recursos, cheio de expediente. (various references) plin de resurse, plin de posibilitãţi, descurcãreţ (handy, shifty, skilful, skillful), abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile). (various references) находчивый (adroit, cute, gumptious, quickwitted, quick-witted, ready-witted, shifty, tricky). (various references) snalažljiv (adroit, cagey, clever, worldly wise), obilat sredstvima. (various references) inventivo (ingenious, inventive), ingenioso (acute, artful, clever, daedal, daemonic, demonic, ingenious, nifty, politic, witty). (various references) rådig, fyndig (ingenious, inventive, metalliferous, quick-witted). (various references) zengin kaynaklı, her işin altından kalkar, her şeye çare bulur, becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise). (various references) винахідливий (adroit, apposite, daedal, dedal, ingenious, inventive, nimble, quick-witted, ready-witted, shifty). (various references) tháo vát, nhiều thủ đoạn, nhiều t i vặt, có t i xoay xở. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "resourceful": resourcefully, resourcefulness, resourcefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Resourceful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resourcefull, resoureful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resourceful" (pronounced rēsô"rsful) |
| 6 | -ô" r s f u l | forceful, remorseful. |
| 4 | -s f u l | blissful, disgraceful, graceful, houseful, peaceful, purposeful, stressful, successful, suspenseful, unsuccessful, useful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, raffle, regretful, resentful, reshuffle, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, untruthful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-l-o-r-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: fluorescer. | |
-2 letters: fluoresce. | |
-3 letters: corulers, ferreous, ferrules, frescoer, recourse, resource, ulcerous. | |
-4 letters: closure, colures, coruler, coulees, courser, creoles, crueler, curlers, ferrels, ferrous, ferrule, ferules, focuser, forcers, fuelers, furlers, furores, ourself, recluse, refocus, refuels, refuser, rescore, rescuer, rolfers, scourer, securer. | |
-5 letters: ceorls, cereus, cerous, ceruse, closer, clours, coleus, colure, corers, coulee, course, creels, creole, cresol, crores. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-l-o-r-r-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: resourcefully. | |
+4 letters: resourcefulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 6F 75 72 63 65 66 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... --- ..- .-. -.-. . ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s o u r c e f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 006F 0075 0072 0063 0065 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271858187846971728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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