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Definition: Strenuously |
StrenuouslyAdverb1. In a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously; "he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strenuously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Crosswords: Strenuously |
| English words defined with "strenuously": To endeavor one's self, toiler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "strenuously": HIBERNATE ♦ ICONOCLAST ♦ tortoise. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, if angina comes on with strenuous exercise, exercise a little less strenuously, but do exercise. (references) | |
Hypokalemic attacks are usually triggered by exercising too strenuously, eating too many carbohydrates, or taking drugs such as insulin. (references) | ||
Conditions that can lead to hypoglycemia in people with diabetes include taking too much medication, missing or delaying a meal, eating too little food for the amount of insulin taken, exercising too strenuously, drinking too much alcohol, or any combination of these factors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | For years, privatization efforts have been strenuously resisted by labor unions and significant elements within the governing PASOK Party. (references) |
Egypt | Trademarks: The current trademark law, Law 57 of 1939, is not enforced strenuously and the courts have only limited experience in adjudicating infringement cases. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ireland | Labor unions strenuously oppose proposals to lay off or dismiss workers, and significant severance packages for "redundant" workers are a common industrial practice in Ireland. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Strenuously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strenuously" is used about 122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 122 | 29,069 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "strenuously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吃力地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cassante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tüchtig (able, ably, big, brave, capable, competent, efficient, efficiently, energetic, gallant, good and proper, hard, heartily, huge, of use, proficient, soundly, strenuous, suitable, vigorous), anstrengende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fáradhatatlanul (tirelessly), erélyesen (forcefully, imperiously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strenuamente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 奮って (energetically, heartily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふるって (energetically, heartily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 격 하게 (drastically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enuouslystray încordat (concentrated, feverishly, hard, intensive, intent, parlous, strained, strenuous, tense). (various references) напряженно (constrainedly, tensely). (various references) yorucu bir biçimde, gayretle (flat out, heartily, keenly, with an effort), şiddetle (amain, drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sharp, sore, sorely, strong, strongly, violently). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obnixe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "strenuously" (pronounced stre"nyuwuslē) |
| 7 | -n y uw u s l ē | continuously. |
| 6 | -y uw u s l ē | conspicuously, unambiguously. |
| 5 | -uw u s l ē | incongruously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: strenuous, tenuously, turnsoles, urostyles. | |
-3 letters: elytrous, lustrous, setulous, tonsures, tourneys, turnsole, unsurely, urostyle. | |
-4 letters: elusory, elytron, ensouls, estrous, lotuses, lusters, lustres, luteous, nestors, oestrus, ostlers, ousters, outruns, oysters, results, runless, runlets, runouts, russety, rustles, sensory, solutes, sourest, souters, sternly, sterols, stoners, storeys, stoures, stylers, sutlers, sutures, systole, telsons, tenours, tensors, tenuous, tonsure, tonuses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-u-u-y" | |
+4 letters: subterraneously. | |
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