resourceful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   skilled at finding clever and practical ways to overcome difficulties with the means available

   The resourceful guide repaired the broken strap with cord and a safety pin.

Formed in English from resource + -ful. Resource came through French from Latin resurgere, "to rise again," and developed the sense of a means one can draw upon; resourceful therefore describes someone full of practical means or expedients.

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