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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resourceful
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Keen competition in the arts, crafts and trade made the Greeks an inventive and resourceful people.
▪ She's a shrewd, resourceful woman and will certainly be able to cope.
▪ We can influence our children's development by encouraging them to be resourceful when they play.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sizeable centre with ancient agricultural traditions, it is a typical example of the resourceful toils of the region.
▪ Despite his size, Tom Thumb was lucky and resourceful, and used his size to his advantage.
▪ He is a resourceful, hard-working, genial man.
▪ He was the most ingenious fisherman, the most resourceful craftsman, and the most competent sailor whom I had ever met.
▪ I think your highwayman is a cunning and resourceful villain.
▪ Indeed, Cairenes are among the most resourceful of urban dwellers.
▪ They were a resourceful and talented people.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resourceful

Resourceful \Re*source"ful\ (-f?l), a. Full of resources.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resourceful

1807, from resource + -ful. Related: Resourcefully; resourcefulness.

Wiktionary
resourceful

a. capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.

WordNet
resourceful

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"

Usage examples of "resourceful".

Never have I known anyone so cunning and resourceful, and so artlessly caring.

Ever the able and resourceful organization man, Brose tabled the proposal for further consideration and appointed someone to form a subcommittee to look into it.

They made him feel he had to prove something, prove that the apparent Joseph was simply a mask for a mysterious, resourceful, dashing Joseph, whose extramural activities were closer to those of a James Bond than a guitar player in a Soho clip-joint.

Moreover, in his humorous way, Bucklaw, during his connection with Phips in England, had made himself agreeable and resourceful.

The child was certainly resourceful, Daydanda thought rue-fully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.

As early as 1954, a resourceful Louisville woman paid White Castle to airfreight twelve hamburgers to her brother living in Los Angeles.

Not only was he a hard and resourceful worker, but he had a sister who was a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College!

But Kettle was resourceful and strong, and he had a grip round Miss Carnegie and a hold on something solid when the waters drenched on him, and he contrived never to be wrested entirely from his hold.

But if he had desired to wrong the Prescotts, reasoned the officer, such a resourceful man as he had adjudged Mortlake to be, would have sought a deeper and more subtle way of going about it.

They will be under the guidance of Corporal Pasquin, who is a brave and resourceful NCO, but the two lance corporals, Dean and Claypoole, can think on their feet too.

This was merely a shortlived delay, one that would do the resourceful mammal no good.

During the next three years this indefatigable, resourceful pioneer assisted in founding Acadia and exploring the Atlantic coast southward.

Conda Challis saw to that, may his bloated, arrogant, deviant carcass rot in whatever hell the theologically resourceful can invent for him!

Fully back in lead mode, he collaborates with Arthur—who turns out to be an ingenious and resourceful technical climber—on the best storm day yet: five hundred meters of fixed rope, their entire supply, nailed up in one day.

Fully back in lead mode, he collaborates with Arthur who turns out to be an ingenious and resourceful technical climber - on the best storm day yet: five hundred metres of fixed rope, their entire supply, nailed up in one day.