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View synonyms for vigor

vigor

[ vig-er ]

noun

  1. active strength or force.
  2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.

    Synonyms: strength, force, drive

  3. energetic activity; energy; intensity:

    The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.

  4. force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
  5. active or effective force, especially legal validity.


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Other Words From

  • vigor·less adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vigor1

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 -or 1
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Idioms and Phrases

see vim and vigor .
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Example Sentences

“Aside from them, the only other thing that I will fight for with that type of vigor and passion is our city of San Francisco.”

It shakes with the vigor of a real earthquake.

And so we are led to the Ferm Living brown Pebble Grinder as a sturdy yet delicate talisman of fragile Virgoan vigor.

“It’s not fair. Now you’ve got to run against someone who appears healthy and youthful and happy, her vigor standing as a stark counterpoint to whatever front butt thing you have going on.”

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The vigor of this year's harvest masks a deeper, existential struggle.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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