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Synonyms & Antonyms of resourceful
able to deal well with new or difficult situations and to find solutions to problems
- a resourceful leader
Synonyms and Near Synonyms for resourceful
- alert,
- brainy,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- clever,
- exceptional,
- fast,
- hyperintelligent,
- intelligent,
- keen,
- nimble,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- smart,
- supersmart,
- ultrasmart
Antonyms and Near Antonyms for resourceful
- ignorant,
- illiterate,
- lowbrow,
- nonintellectual,
- unacademic,
- uneducated,
- uninformed,
- unintellectual,
- untaught,
- unthinking
- absurd,
- asinine,
- balmy,
- cockeyed,
- crackpot,
- crazy,
- cuckoo,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dippy,
- dotty,
- featherheaded,
- fool,
- half-baked,
- harebrained,
- insane,
- kooky
- (also kookie),
- loony
- (also looney),
- lunatic,
- mad,
- nonsensical,
- nutty,
- preposterous,
- sappy,
- screwball,
- tomfool,
- unwise,
- wacky
- (also whacky),
- zany
- airheaded,
- birdbrained,
- boneheaded,
- brain-dead,
- brainless,
- bubbleheaded,
- chuckleheaded,
- dense,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- doltish,
- dopey
- (also dopy),
- dorky
- [slang],
- dull,
- dumb,
- dunderheaded,
- empty-headed,
- fatuous,
- gormless
- [chiefly British],
- half-witted,
- knuckleheaded,
- lamebrain
- (or lamebrained),
- lunkheaded,
- mindless,
- obtuse,
- opaque,
- pinheaded,
- senseless,
- simple,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- soft,
- softheaded,
- stupid,
- thick,
- thickheaded,
- thick-witted,
- unbrilliant,
- unintelligent,
- unsmart,
- vacuous,
- weak-minded,
- witless
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The first known use of resourceful was in 1851
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