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Strong   /strɔŋ/   Listen
adjective
Strong  adj.  (compar. stronger; superl. strongest)  
1.
Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous. "That our oxen may be strong to labor." "Orses the strong to greater strength must yield."
2.
Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
3.
Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
4.
Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
5.
Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
6.
Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
7.
Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
8.
Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
9.
Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory. "Her mother, ever strong against that match."
10.
Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
11.
Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
12.
Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
13.
Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
14.
Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
15.
Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent. "He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears."
16.
Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination. "I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism."
17.
Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful. "Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song, As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong."
18.
(Stock Exchange) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
19.
(Gram.)
(a)
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
(b)
Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; called also old conjugation, or irregular conjugation, and distinguished from the weak conjugation or regular conjugation. Note: Strong is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based, strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-voiced, etc.
Synonyms: Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See Robust.





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"Strong" Quotes from Famous Books



... that great which makes him little— I grant you in a church 't is very well: What speaks of Heaven should by no means be brittle, But strong and lasting, till no tongue can tell Their names who reared it; but huge houses fit ill, And huge tombs, worse, Mankind—since Adam fell: Methinks the story of the tower of Babel Might teach them this much better than ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... macadam the stones are held in place by a weak cement composed of stone dust and water, and this cement is not sufficiently strong to hold the stones in place when they are subjected to the shear of automobile tires. In finishing the water-bound macadam surface, the spaces between the stones are filled with screening and in ...
— American Rural Highways • T. R. Agg
... glimpse of him. There was the malignant, but derisive look—one which he meant to be courteous, but which the bitter feeling within him overshadowed with the gloomy triumph of an evil spirit. She placed her hands over her eyes, gave one loud shriek, and immediately fell into strong convulsions. ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... they have broken up the grim lines that make so dismal the best-intentioned factory town. There are hints that the builders have heard somewhere of the science of landscape gardening. At times these same houses are deceiving, for all I. C. C. buildings bear a strong family resemblance, and it is only at the door that you know whether it is bachelors' quarters, a family ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... came out of the dusk into the light of their fire, and a long arm waved a greeting at them. Both Lawless and Pierre rose to their feet. The stranger was dressed in buckskin, he carried a rifle, and around his shoulder was a strong yellow cord, from ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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