RESOURCEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resourcefulness mean? 

• RESOURCEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun RESOURCEFULNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation

2. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

  Familiarity information: RESOURCEFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESOURCEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

a man of great resourcefulness

Hypernyms ("resourcefulness" is a kind of...):

resource (a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed)

Derivation:

resourceful (having inner resources; adroit or imaginative)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagination; resource; resourcefulness

Context example:

a man of resource

Hypernyms ("resourcefulness" is a kind of...):

cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness (the power of creative imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resourcefulness"):

armory; armoury; inventory (a collection of resources)

Derivation:

resourceful (having inner resources; adroit or imaginative)

 Context examples 

Your creativity will be at an all-time high, as will your resourcefulness.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Uranus is the planet that gives no notice, keeping us on our toes, and flexing our resourcefulness to come up with ways to deal with what we are confronted with at the time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)