Synonyms of resourceful

resourceful

adjective

as in skilled

able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems

a resourceful leader

Synonyms & Similar Words

• skilled
• intelligent
• clever
• ingenious
• educated
• brilliant
• judicious
• trained
• scholarly
• creative
• literate
• smart
• wise
• cerebral
• savvy
• nimble
• astute
• apt
• insightful
• knowledgeable
• perceptive
• exceptional
• sound
• keen
• quick
• bright
• fast
• learned
• sagacious
• quick-witted
• schooled
• informed
• brainy
• alert
• cunning
• sharp
• erudite
• discerning
• sharp-witted
• perspicacious
• acute
• knowing
• prudent
• supersmart
• inventive
• hyperintelligent
• genial
• sensible
• well-read
• heady
• sane
• sapient
• wily
• shrewd
• logical
• ultrasmart
• crafty
• percipient
• sage
• reasonable
• rational
• highbrow
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• feebleminded
• foolish
• simpleminded
• idiotic
• silly
• moronic
• imbecile
• ignorant
• uneducated
• uninformed
• illiterate
• imbecilic
• untaught
• unthinking
• mad
• zany
• unintellectual
• insane
• crazy
• nonintellectual
• unwise
• absurd
• wacky
• unacademic
• simple
• lunatic
• nutty
• lowbrow
• preposterous
• stupid
• dumb
• kooky
• idiotical
• loony
• whacky
• nonsensical
• harebrained
• fool
• asinine
• daffy
• slow
• daft
• dense
• unintelligent
• dippy
• cuckoo
• obtuse
• sappy
• half-baked
• thick
• vacuous
• balmy
• opaque
• doltish
• cockeyed
• screwball
• soft
• fatuous
• mindless
• dull
• dotty
• dopey
• brainless
• boobish
• brain-dead
• dim
• thickheaded
• witless
• senseless
• looney
• weak-minded
• crackpot
• boneheaded
• dunderheaded
• softheaded
• dorky
• pinheaded
• lamebrained
• lamebrain
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• dopy
• featherheaded
• gormless
• tomfool
• empty-headed
• kookie
• knuckleheaded
• thick-witted
• airheaded
• unsmart
• half-witted
• bubbleheaded
• unbrilliant
• lunkheaded
• chuckleheaded
• birdbrained

Examples of resourceful in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Greta gets hemmed up when the shockingly resourceful Chloe Grace Moretz turns out to have a greater support network than your run-of-the-mill NYC ingénue. —Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024

That’s Emily in a nutshell, the plucky, overly naive, yet always resourceful marketing agency heroine who has spent three previous seasons overcoming French snobbery toward her ideas and enchanting all nearby men in the 20 to 50 age range. —Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024

Owen’s daughter Diamond (Isabelle Fuhrman) proves both the most resourceful and rebellious of the teenage girls, with a feistiness that looks designed to drive plot forward in future outings. —Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024

Embeth Davidtz, playing a Maid Marian type, makes easy work of her status as the most resourceful, and memorable, final girl in the Evil Dead franchise. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024