Explosive
Resilient
Resilient adjective - Able to revert to original size and shape after being stretched, squeezed, or twisted.
Explosive and resilient are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explosive" instead an adjective "Resilient".
Nearby Words: resilience, resiliency
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Hydrogen-filled Zeppelins in World War I were surprisingly resilient to being brought down by machine gun fire, though they could be downed with just one burst of incendiary ammunition or a single explosive shell in the right place.
Source: One-Hit Kill
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Resilient and Explosive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/explosive/resilient
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