Strenuous

Definition: Strenuous

Strenuous

Adjective

1. Characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise".

2. Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt.

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Date "strenuous" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Strenuous \Stren"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression strenuus; compare Greek for strong, hard, rough, harsh.]. (references)

Synonyms: Strenuous

Activity

Forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute.

Exertion

Hard-working, painstaking; strenuous, energetic.

Perseverance

Unintermitting, unremitting; plodding; industrious; strenuous; pertinacious; persisting, persistent.

Crosswords: Strenuous

Nothing strenuous. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

A Strenuous Ride (1914)

The Strenuous Life (1914)

His Strenuous Honeymoon (1914)

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Books

• Go into the City: Sermons for a Strenuous Age (reference)

• Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise: Selected Plays (reference)

• The Strenuous Age in American Literature. (reference)

• The Strenuous Decade: A Social and Intellectual Record of the 1930'S, (reference)

• The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (reference)

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A strenuous effort. Credit: Library of Congress.

Now for a strenuous one. One, two -- !. Credit: Library of Congress.

War workers' nursery. Encouraging a restful game after strenuous exercise, a nursery school supervisor helps youngsters identify animals in picture book. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ready for a bath. Ready for a bath in oil are these gun stocks. The oil will preserve them in the strenuous days ahead in war work. Credit: Library of Congress.

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To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For example, if angina comes on with strenuous exercise, exercise a little less strenuously, but do exercise. (references)

Strenuous exercise, in this case, means exercising for more than an hour just to keep from gaining weight after binge eating. (references)

However, it can occur in some people under certain conditions such as early pregnancy, prolonged fasting, and long periods of strenuous exercise. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

These individuals encountered strenuous security checks in Vavuniya that often took months, further contributing to crowding in the transit camps. (references)

Indigenous People

Honduras

The Government makes all decisions regarding exploitation of timber resources on indigenous lands, often over strenuous objections of the indigenous community. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Employers require the Ministry's approval to engage children between 13 and 16 years of age in overtime, night, weekend or holiday, or strenuous work. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

The Labor Code prohibits pregnant women from engaging in strenuous physical exertion at the workplace after the 4th month of pregnancy. (references)

Oman

Children between 13 and 16 years of age may be employed, but must obtain the Ministry's permission to work overtime, at night, on weekends or holidays, or to perform strenuous labor. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

The minimum age for employment varies with the type of work, but is no lower than 14. The Labor Code is contradictory in the requirements it sets for the minimum age of employment of youths in work that could harm their physical and moral well being (i.e. employment in casinos, bars, night clubs, etc.). Article 285 states that such work is prohibited for those under age 21; however, Article 319 prohibits such employment for those under age 18. According to the Labor Code, children between ages 14 and 16 are permitted to perform strenuous work with parental consent. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "strenuous": less-strenuous, non-strenuous, over-strenuous.

Albanian

i zellshëm (diligent, hard, industrious, laborious, sedulous, studious, unsparing, zealous), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, passionate, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, tired, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, vexing, wearisome, weary), ‏مجهد (arduous, exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, overwrought, tiring, toilsome, wearing), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out), ‏نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, vigorous, vivacious), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏عويص (abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, opaque, profound, recondite, stiff), ‏عسير (complicated, difficult, hard, intractable, knotty, malaise, precipitous, severe, strait, stubborn, terrible, troublesome, uphill), ‏شاق (arduous, hard, laborious, malaise, onerous, painful, robust, stiff, terrible, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усърден (assiduous, diligent, hard, industrious, mettled, mettlesome, painstaking, patient, sedulous, studious, thorough, warm), упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, taut, tense, tight, uncool, uphill). (various references)

Chinese 

吃力 (strenuousness). (various references)

Czech

snaživý (assiduous, diligent, studious), vytrvalý (assiduous, persistent, steadfast, sustained, tireless, tough, unremitting), usilovný (painstaking), tvrdošíjný (dogged, obstinate, pertinacious, restive), namáhavý (arduous, gruelling, hard, labor intensive, laborious, labour intensive, painful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearing), houževnatý (dogged, persistent, resilient, stiff, tenacious, tough, wiry), horlivý (ardent, assiduous, eager, fanatical, keen, spirited, zealous), energický (assertive, brisk, decisive, decisively, energetic, enterprising, firm, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, perky, red blooded, strong, vigorous, vital). (various references)

Farsi 

فوق العاده (Extra, Extraordinary, Inestimable, Phenomenal, Precious, Singular, Supernatural, Terrific), فعال (Active, Astir, Energetic, Pragmatic, Smacker, Spirituous, Trig), مصر (Demanding, Insistent, Precarious, Shrill, Stickler), شدید (Boisterous, Chronic, Diametrical, Drastic, Exquisite, Grievous, Hard, Inclement, Intense, Intensive, Keen, Rigorous, Rugged, Severe, Sopping, Stalwart, Tough, Vehement, Vigorous, Violent), بلیغ (Studious), باحرارت (Earnest, Ebullient, Warm). (various references)

Finnish

rasittava (burdensome, trying). (various references)

French

vigoureux (stalwart, stout, stringent, strong, sturdy), fatigant, enthousiaste, ardu (stiff), actif, épineux (sticky), énergique (stout, stringent, strong, sturdy). (various references)

German

anstrengend (arduous, arduously, demanding, exhausting, hard, shattering, straining, taxing, tiring, trying). (various references)

Greek 

κουραστικόσ (gruelling, tiresome, tiring, trying, wearing), έντονος (acute, bold, intense), σφοδρόσ (eager, intense, keen, splitting, vehement, violent), εντατικόσ (intensive), επείγων (exigent, instant, pressing, urgent), επίπονος (arduous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאומץ (adopted, forced), �"ורש מאמץ. (various references)

Hungarian

tevékeny (active, brisk, busy, efficient, factious, operative, up and doing, very much alive), fáradhatatlan (fatigueless, indefatigable, painstaking, sleepless, tireless, unflagging, unwearying, weariless), buzgó (devout, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, forward, keen, sedulous, zealous). (various references)

Italian

strenuo (brave, courageous), vigoroso (energetic, Hale, hearty, hefty, lusty, nervous, peppy, pithy, powerful, robust, rude, spirited, strong, vigorous, zippy), faticoso (arduous, arduously, difficult, grindingly, grueling, gruelling, hard, killing, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, uphill, wearisome), energico (active, drastic, energetic, peppy, pushing, spry, strong, vigorous), attivo (active, alive, assets, brisk, busy, hardworking, in action, industrious, instrumental, lively, practicing, practising, spry, working), arduo (arduous, severe, stiff, uphill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

健闘 (fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, strenuous efforts), 奮励 (strenuous efforts). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおわらわ (hard fighting, strenuous efforts), ふ�"ぱつ (spurt, strenuous exertion), ふ�"れい (strenuous efforts), ふ�"とう (hard struggle, strenuous effort), ほ�"�"し (earnestness, seriousness, strenuous effort), りっ�"う (exertion, go by land, strenuous efforts), りょっ�"う (exertion, strenuous efforts), け�"とう (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple, aim, approx, be found, boxing, consideration, direction, door light, estimate, examination, fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, good pitching, guess, investigation, lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house, mark, prizefighting, scrutiny, strenuous efforts, study, winter). (various references)

Korean 

격� �한 (Drastic, torrential). (various references)

Manx

breeoil (active, active as person, brisk, buoyant, buoyant of market, cogent, dynamic, energetic, essential, fizzy, forceful, go ahead, impulsive, purposeful, red-blooded, valid, vibrant, vigorous). (various references)

Pig Latin

enuousstray.(various references)

Portuguese

vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, hale, hard, healthful, healthy, hefty, lively, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppy, pithy, racy, red-blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), estrênuo, esforçado (darting, diligent, hardworking, industrious), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, pithy, potent, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strong, trenchant, two-fisted, vibrant, vigorous, virile), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetic, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Romanian

silitor (active, assiduous, diligent, hard working, industrious, painstaking, sedulous), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), intens (arduous, cut throat, deep, exquisite, heavy, high, intense, intensely, intensive, keen, powerful, saturated, severe, strong, violent), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), încordat (concentrated, feverishly, hard, intensive, intent, parlous, strained, strenuously, tense). (various references)

Russian 

сильный (bad, big, brawny, closely-coupled, exquisite, forceful, forcible, hard, intense, iron, keen, lively, lusty, marrowy, muscular, pithy, potent, powerful, racy, rugged, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, two-fisted, upstanding, vehement, vigorous, violent), требующий усилий, напряженный (all out, constrained, ding-dong, highly strung, intense, strained, tense, uptight, wrought up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naporan (drudgery, grueling, gruelling, heavy, labored, laboured, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying). (various references)

Spanish

enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), arduo (arduous, hard, toilsome, tough, uphill), agotador (exhauster, exhausting, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, gruesome, hard, killing, punishing, taxing). (various references)

Swedish

ansträngande (exhausting, grueling, gruelling, hard, trying). (various references)

Turkish

yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort), gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, eager, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, hardworking, industrious, persevering, sedulous, studious, vigorous, zealous), faal (active, busy, energetic, full of action, on the go, operative, rousing, spry, up and doing), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), çalışkan (active, arduous, assiduous, diligent, earnest, energetic, full of action, hardworking, industrious, labored, laborious, laboured, sedulous, studious). (various references)

Ukrainian

що потребу�" сили, енергійний (active, aggressive, arduous, deedful, eager, energetic, energetical, fell, go ahead, managing, pithy, pushful, red blooded, spirited, spiritful, spirituous, two-fisted, up and coming, zippy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tích cực đòi hỏi sự rán sức, hăm hở (eager), căng thẳng. (various references)

strenuis, strenuus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "strenuous": strenuously, strenuousness, strenuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strenuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stenous, streneous, Strenewe, strenous, strenuos. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tonsures.

-2 letters: estrous, nestors, oestrus, ousters, outruns, runouts, sourest, souters, stoners, stoures, sutures, tenours, tensors, tenuous, tonsure, tonuses, tussore, unrests, untruss.

-3 letters: estrus, nestor, noters, nouses, nurses, onsets, onuses, ouster, outers, outrun, rosets, rouens, rouses, rousts, routes, runout, russet, senors, sensor, serous, setons, setous, snores, snorts, snouts, sorest, souter, stenos, sterns, stoner, stones.

+2 letters: countersues, strenuously, subroutines.

+3 letters: countersuits, lustrousness, tortuousness, virtuousness.

+4 letters: courteousness, rapturousness, strenuousness, subterraneous, superconducts, tremulousness, troublousness, venturousness.

+5 letters: brontosauruses, circuitousness, counterassault, counterthrusts, fortuitousness, gratuitousness, lustrousnesses, nutritiousness, outrageousness, robustiousness, roundaboutness, tortuousnesses, transcutaneous, virtuousnesses.