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vigor
[ vig-er ]
noun
- active strength or force.
- healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
- energetic activity; energy; intensity:
The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.
- force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
- active or effective force, especially legal validity.
Other Words From
- vigor·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see vim and vigor .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.”
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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