vigor

[ vig-er ]
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noun
  1. active strength or force.

  2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.

  1. energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.

  2. force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.

  3. active or effective force, especially legal validity.

Origin of vigor

1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English vigo(u)r, from Anglo-French; Middle French vigeur, from Latin vigor “force, energy,” from vig(ēre) “to be vigorous, thrive” + -or -or1
  • Also especially British, vig·our .

Other words for vigor

Other words from vigor

  • vig·or·less, adjective

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vigor

see vim and vigor.

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