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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



... cause. He belongs to it, and I must help him be single-hearted for it. You could only be a bad influence in his life. I think you would like to be a sincere woman; but you can't. Your class is too strong for you. So—it would be wrong for Victor Dorn to love and to marry you. I think he realizes it and is struggling to be true to himself. I intend to ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... of ore;[A] but the growth and vigour of the work comes from the mind of the king himself: he writes for the Prince of Scotland, and about the Scottish people. On its first appearance Camden has recorded the strong sensation it excited: it was not only admired, but it entered into and won the hearts of men. Harris, forced to acknowledge, in his mean style and with his frigid temper, that "this book contains some tolerable things," omits not to hint that "it might not be his own:" but the claims ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... as if he sugared the medicine he gave them. His speech was nothing but demands for discipline and work, coupled with prophecy of disaster in case work and discipline failed. It was delivered like all his speeches, with a strong Polish accent and a steady ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome
... fighting, except from an ambush, or on his own ground, and that the summer was now far advanced, he withdrew his army from Zama, and placed garrisons in such of the cities that had revolted to him as were sufficiently strong in situation or fortifications. The rest of his forces he settled in winter quarters, in that part of our province nearest ...
— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust
... ancestors lived by raiding their neighbours. Their armed bands of hired retainers ravaged, burned, pillaged—the strong against the weak, the shrewd against the simple, the powerful against the defenseless. The power of those savages was purely physical. The power we give to their modern prototype is both physical and moral. They ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon


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