resurgent
adjective/rɪˈsɜːdʒənt/
/rɪˈsɜːrdʒənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)- becoming stronger or more popular again
- a resurgent economy
- resurgent nationalism
Word Originearly 19th cent. (earlier as a noun): from Latin resurgent- ‘rising again’, from the verb resurgere, from re- ‘again’ + surgere ‘to rise’.Definitions on the go
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