strong
Americanadjective
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having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust.
a strong boy.
- Antonyms:
- weak
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accompanied or delivered by great physical, mechanical, etc., power or force.
a strong handshake;
With one strong blow the machine stamped out a fender.
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mentally powerful or vigorous.
He may be old, but his mind is still strong.
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especially able, competent, or powerful in a specific field or respect.
She's very strong in mathematics.
He's weak at bat, but he's a strong fielder.
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of great moral power, firmness, or courage.
strong under temptation.
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powerful in influence, authority, resources, or means of prevailing or succeeding.
a strong nation.
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a strong personality.
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of great force, effectiveness, potency, or cogency; compelling.
strong reasons;
strong arguments.
- Synonyms:
- conclusive, impressive, cogent, persuasive
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clear and firm; loud.
He has a strong voice.
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solid or stable; healthy; thriving.
The banker predicted a strong economy.
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well-supplied or rich in something specific.
a strong hand in trumps.
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having powerful means to resist attack, assault, or aggression.
a strong fortress;
a strong defense.
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able to resist strain, force, wear, etc..
strong walls;
strong cloth.
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decisively unyielding; firm or uncompromising.
She has strong views about the United Nations.
He has a strong sense of duty.
- Synonyms:
- resolute
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fervent; zealous; thoroughgoing.
He's a strong Democrat.
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strenuous or energetic; vigorous.
strong efforts.
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moving or acting with force or vigor.
strong winds.
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distinct or marked; vivid, as impressions, resemblance or contrast.
He bears a strong resemblance to his grandfather.
- Synonyms:
- clear, unmistakable, striking
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intense, as light or color.
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having a large proportion of the effective or essential properties or ingredients; concentrated.
strong tea.
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(of a beverage or food) containing much alcohol.
strong drink;
The fruitcake was too strong.
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having a high degree of flavor or odor.
strong cheese;
strong perfume.
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having an unpleasant or offensive flavor or odor, especially in the process of decay.
strong butter.
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of a designated number.
Marines 20,000 strong.
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Commerce. characterized by steady or advancing prices.
The market resumed its strong pace after yesterday's setback.
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Grammar.
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(of Germanic verbs) having vowel change in the root in inflected forms, as the English verbs sing, sang, sung; ride, rode, ridden.
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(of Germanic nouns and adjectives) inflected with endings that are generally distinctive of case, number, and gender, as German alter Mann “old man.”
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belonging to the morphophonemically less regular of two inflectional subtypes.
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(of a word or syllable) stressed.
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Optics. having great magnifying or refractive power.
a strong microscope.
adverb
idioms
adjective
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involving or possessing physical or mental strength
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solid or robust in construction; not easily broken or injured
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having a resolute will or morally firm and incorruptible character
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intense in quality; not faint or feeble
a strong voice
a strong smell
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easily defensible; incontestable or formidable
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concentrated; not weak or diluted
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(postpositive) containing or having a specified number
a navy 40 000 strong
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( in combination )
a 40 000-strong navy
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having an unpleasantly powerful taste or smell
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having an extreme or drastic effect
strong discipline
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emphatic or immoderate
strong language
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convincing, effective, or cogent
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(of a colour) having a high degree of saturation or purity; being less saturated than a vivid colour but more so than a moderate colour; produced by a concentrated quantity of colouring agent
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grammar
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denoting or belonging to a class of verbs, in certain languages including the Germanic languages, whose conjugation shows vowel gradation, as sing, sang, sung
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belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the less regular of two possible patterns Compare weak
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(of a wind, current, etc) moving fast
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(of a syllable) accented or stressed
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(of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) firm in price or characterized by firm or increasing prices
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(of certain acids and bases) producing high concentrations of hydrogen or hydroxide ions in aqueous solution
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prosperous; well-to-do (esp in the phrase a strong farmer )
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not to be prone to nausea
adverb
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informal in a strong way; effectively
going strong
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to make a forceful or exaggerated impression
Other Word Forms
- overstrong adjective
- overstrongly adverb
- overstrongness noun
- self-strong adjective
- strongish adjective
- strongly adverb
- strongness noun
- superstrong adjective
Etymology
Origin of strong
First recorded before 900; (adjective) Middle English strang, strong, Old English; cognate with Middle Dutch stranc, Old Norse strangr; (adverb) Middle English strange, stronge, Old English; cognate with Old High German strango; akin to string
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