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Definition: Vigorous |
VigorousAdjective1. Characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war". 2. Strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vigorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Vigorous \Vig"or*ous\, adjective. [Compare to Old French vigoros, French vigoureux, Late Latin expression vigorosus.]. (references) |
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Fine Arts | The paper grades are usually classified by each maker according to his own ideas. . . no 3: --, hard, contrasty. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: VigorousSynonyms: healthy, strong. (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: contrasty (fine arts, sports & leisure). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Health | Adjective: healthy, healthful; in health; Noun: well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof. |
Strength | Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid. |
Vigor | Adjective: vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational. |
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Crosswords: Vigorous |
| Specialty definitions using "vigorous": Calm, cleaner assistant, cleaner helper, cuspate delta ♦ DRY-CLEANER HELPER, dry-cleaning-machine-operator helper ♦ Internet Relay Chat, IRC ♦ lexicographer ♦ Receding Chin ♦ scrub mark ♦ Th1 Cells, Towers magnetic stirrer ♦ Windows 3.0, wolf tree. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vigorous": Quitch grass. (references) |
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Screenplays | Um, I suggest a vigorous chest massage, and if that doesn't work, uh, mouth-to-mouth (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) No, but he was young and vigorous. He was very vigorous, father (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) So vigorous! (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley) Vigorous. (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
Lyrics | I am alive and vigorous. (This Song: For The True And Passionate Lovers Of Music; performing artist: Shai) | |
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 | 'But don't you see? If the Democratic Party is to stay young and vigorous we just had to drop the abortion plank'. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A vigorous foreign policy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Aristotle | The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. |
Henry David Thoreau | To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. |
René Descartes | To be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Vigorous, decided, with sentiments to a certain point, not coarse |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, however energetic, however vigorous, and however desperate Jean Valjean might be. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Talk with your doctor before starting a vigorous exercise program. (references) | |
The cause or causes of CFS remain unknown, despite a vigorous search. (references) | ||
Moderate as well as vigorous exercise training regimens are of value. (references) | ||
Business | Korea's vigorous economy and heightened interest in globalization including studying abroad have spiked its students' interest in the United States as an education destination. (references) | |
Dramatic increases in U.S. consumer access to the Internet have been made possible by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) flat-rate access regulation of the Internet and by vigorous competition in the local loop, or last mile, through cable TV networks, and early implementation of wireless access technologies. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ecuador | There is a free and vigorous press. (references) |
South Africa | Coverage of news and expression of opinion is vigorous. (references) | |
India | A vigorous and growing press reflects a wide variety of political, social, and economic beliefs. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | The government continues to pursue vigorous counterterrorist policy. (references) |
Nepal | Views expressed since the 1990 move to democracy are varied and vigorous. (references) | |
Russia | There are abundant opportunities to reach customers through Russia's vigorous print media. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | In January the military court sentenced to death six child soldiers; however, their sentences were commuted following vigorous appeals from numerous human rights NGO's. (references) |
Vanuatu | An Ombudsman's Act was passed by Parliament in 1998 in the wake of parliamentary anger over vigorous investigations of corruption by the Ombudsman under the previous act. (references) | |
Cuba | Detainees and prisoners, both common and political, often are subjected to repeated vigorous interrogations designed to coerce them into signing incriminating statements, to force collaboration with authorities, or to intimidate victims. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bangladesh | Political competition is vigorous. (references) |
Mexico | But, perhaps what most Mexicans expect from a Fox Administration is a vigorous attack on corruption and crime. (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | Few have well-defined social or economic programs, but almost all advocate a mixture of state intervention and vigorous private entrepreneurship. (references) | |
Political Rights | Iran | Vigorous parliamentary debates take place regarding various issues. (references) |
Vietnam | During the year, the National Assembly continued to engage in vigorous debate on economic, legal, and social issues and to exert its increasing power to revise or reject draft laws. (references) | |
Trade | Kazakhstan | The National Bank has also introduced more vigorous requirements for the establishment and licensing of banks. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | As would be the case in most markets, a vigorous and sustained promotion is often needed to launch products. (references) |
Women | Malaysia | Police attribute the increase to more vigorous enforcement efforts. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Several Cabinet departments, presidential commissions, and legislators also are involved in vigorous public awareness campaigns. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
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Dennis Miller | People of all races, creeds and national origins have assimilated into this great American melting FryDaddy through the vigorous exercise of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of crappiness. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | But considering the late manifestations of her policy toward foreign nations, I deem it a duty deliberately and solemnly to declare my opinion that whether we negotiate with her or not, vigorous preparations for war will be alike indispensable. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | With a view to that vigorous prosecution of the war to which our national faculties are adequate, the attention of Congress will be particularly drawn to the insufficiency of existing provisions for filling up the military establishment. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | This record has been made possible by the vigorous efforts of the agencies responsible for this program. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Last fall, with the help of others, we succeeded in our vigorous efforts to maintain the stability of the price of oil. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The key to a dynamic decade is vigorous economic growth, our first great goal. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We are protected from attack only by vigorous action abroad, and increased vigilance at home. |
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| "Vigorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vigorous" is used about 978 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 978 | 7,481 |
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Expressions using "vigorous": forceful slashing vigorous ♦ ultra vigorous ♦ vigorous push. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "vigorous": vigorous-looking. | |
Ending with "vigorous": over-vigorous. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vigorous | 8 |
living vigorous | 4 |
exercise vigorous | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "vigorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sterk (strong). (various references) | |
Albanian | i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, darting, dashing, drastic, explosive, impetuous, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, sweeping, tearaway, tearing, thrifty, vehement), 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, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, violent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), fuqishëm (forcibly, mightily, strong, vigorously), fortë (loudly, strong), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vital, zippy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفعم بالحيوية (active, animate, animated, brisk, dynamic, energetic, full of energy, full of life, full of vigor, lively, lusty, peppy, spirited, sprightly, vital, vivacious, zippy), نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vivacious), قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убедителен (convincing, demonstrative, eloquent, evidential, fair-spoken, forcible, persuasive, potent, seductive, solid, suasive, telling, weighty), як (brawny, chopping, fast, fit, flourishing, grunting ox, hard, husky, iron, lusty, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stocky, stout, sturdy, thickset, tough, two-fisted, yak), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement), мощен (forceful, main, massive, mighty, powerful), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, violent, wanton, zizzi), избуял (luxuriant, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, riotous), изискващ сила, изискващ енергия, деен (active, busy, positive, stirring). (various references) | |
Catalan | fort (strong). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轟轟烈烈 (large-scale, strong), 苍劲, "勃 (flourishing, full of vitality), 精力充沛 , 燊 (brisk), 積極 (active, energetic, positive, proactive), 神氣 (expression, manner, spirited), 暋 (strong), 有力 (forceful, powerful), 旺盛 (exuberant), 活躍 (active), 剛勁 (bold), 奡 (haughty), 大力 (energetic, vigorously), 勃勃 (exuberant, thriving). (various references) | |
Czech | vitální (energetic, vital), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, violent), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, violent, virulent), energický (assertive, brisk, decisive, decisively, energetic, enterprising, firm, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, perky, red blooded, strenuous, strong, vital), dùrazný (emphatic, firm, stern, stringent). (various references) | |
Danish | stærk (strong), energisk (energetic). (various references) | |
Dutch | voortvarend (energetic), zwaar (burdensome, deep, difficult, hard, hardly, heavy, important, inconvenient, not easily, onerous, serious, severe, strict, strong, with difficulty), straf (punishment, severe, strict, strong), sterk (acute, concentrated, firm, intense, intensive, robust, strong, strongly, sturdy), krachtig (energetic, strong), geducht (enormously, extremely, strong), flink (brave, energetic, firm, gallant, solid), fiks (strong), ferm (bold, brave, courageous, energetic, fearless, firm, gallant, robust, sturdy), energiek (energetic), energetisch (energetic). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sterkur (acute, firm, intense, intensive, robust, strong, sturdy). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرزور (Keen, Potent, Strong), نیرومند (Frank, Hale, Main, Mighty, Nervy, Potent, Prolific, Rugged, Stout, Strong, Valiant), قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Hefty, Intense, Irresistible, Lusty, Mighty, Overtone, Potent, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Valid), زورمند (Mighty), شدید (Boisterous, Chronic, Diametrical, Drastic, Exquisite, Grievous, Hard, Inclement, Intense, Intensive, Keen, Rigorous, Rugged, Severe, Sopping, Stalwart, Strenuous, Tough, Vehement, Violent). (various references) | |
Finnish | voimakas (acute, forcible, intense, intensive, mighty, powerful, strong, substantial). (various references) | |
French | vigoureux. (various references) | |
Frisian | sterk (strong), krêftich (strong). (various references) | |
German | kräftig (able bodied, athletic, big, bold, brawny, burly, effectual, firm, florid, forceful, fresh, full, Hale, hard, Hardy, healthy, heartily, hearty, heftily, hefty, husky, keen, loud, loudly, lustily, lusty, massive, nourishing, powerful, powerfully, puissant, rich, robust, robustly, solid, sound, stalwart, strong, strongly, sturdily, sturdy, substantial, trig, upstanding, violent, violently, vivid), forsch (brisk, briskly, dashing, dynamic, energetic). (various references) | |
Greek | ρωμαλέος (robust, sturdy), σθεναρόσ (pithy, puissant, spirited, staminal, stout, sturdy), δραστήριοσ (active, efficient, hustler, nippy, pushing), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, possible, potent, powerful, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, virile), δυνατός (mighty, powerful, strong, swingeing). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fuqishëm (strong), fortë (strong). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לש"י (juicy), מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, snappy, spirited, sturdy, tearing, trenchant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyomatékos (earnest, emphatic, stressful, weighty), erôs (strong), életerős (beany, ebullient, full-blood, living, lusty, rugged, sappy), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vivacious, vivid, warm). (various references) | |
Icelandic | sterkur (strong), máttagur (strong). (various references) | |
Indonesian | giat (enterprising, mobile, pushing). (various references) | |
Italian | energico (active, drastic, energetic, peppy, pushing, spry, strenuous, strong). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雄渾 (bold, magnificent, sublime), 雄勁 (powerful), 溌剌 (lively), 強硬 (firm, strong, stubborn, unbending, unyielding), 健やか (healthy, sound), 健やか (healthy, sound). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | す"やか (healthy, sound), きょう"う (consternation, crime, enforcement, famine, firm, forcing, height of a mirror stand, murder, panic, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, violence), ゆう"" (bold, magnificent, spirits of the dead, sublime), ゆうけい (concrete, material, powerful, quiet sequestered scene, secret promise, tangible), はつらつ (lively). (various references) | |
Korean | 활기찬. (various references) | |
Malay | kuat (strong). (various references) | |
Manx | rootagh (brave), breeoil (active, active as person, brisk, buoyant, buoyant of market, cogent, dynamic, energetic, essential, fizzy, forceful, go ahead, impulsive, purposeful, red-blooded, strenuous, valid, vibrant), breeagh (inspiring). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sterk (strong). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sterki (strong), fuerte (strong), duru (hard, strong), brio (brave, courage, courageous, diligent, energetic, hardworking, industrious, valiant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igorousvay.(various references) | |
Polish | silny (strong), mocny (strong), energiczny (energetic). (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, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, venturous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), sadio (healthful, healthy, lusty, robust, salubrious, sound, strong, wakeless, wholesome), robusto (able-bodied, cant, hale, hefty, lusty, masculine, nervy, randy, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough, wakeless, wholesome), possante (mighty, powerful), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, wakeless, wholesome), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, pithy, potent, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strenuous, strong, trenchant, two-fisted, vibrant, virile). (various references) | |
Romanian | tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | энергичный (active, aggressive, devil, eager, energetic, full of beans, go ahead, humming, keen, live, macho, oomph, peppy, punchy, red blooded, rip-roaring, smart, two-fisted, up and coming, youthful, zippy). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgairteil (lively, smart), l idir (strong), gramail (having power to resist), beòthail (active), ùr (beautiful, flourishing, fresh, new, recent, young). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vivid, well knit), energičan (driving, energetic, forcible, frisky, peppy, zippy). (various references) | |
Spanish | vigoroso (animated, brisk, emphatic, forceful, forcible, full-blooded, hearty, lusty, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, sinewy, strong, sturdy, thrustful, tough, trenchant, youthful), pujante (enormous, forceful, pushful, towering, tremendous), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough), esforzado (brave, tough), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vital, zippy), ñeque (brave, courage, energy, strength, strong). (various references) | |
Sranan | tranga (strong), krakti (force, strength, strong, vigour). (various references) | |
Swahili | imara (strong), -enye nguvu (strong). (various references) | |
Swedish | kraftfull (emphatic, energetic, forceful, lusty, powerful, red blooded, strong, telling, trenchant, virile). (various references) | |
Tagalog | malakás (loud, strong). (various references) | |
Turkish | zinde (crispy, fit, fresh, Hale, hearty, sinewed, sinewy), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, virile, virulent), gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, eager, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, hardworking, industrious, persevering, sedulous, strenuous, studious, zealous), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, virile, voluminous), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, virile, warm blooded, zippy), dinç (florid, fresh, Hale, hearty, husky, lusty, red blooded, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spry, succulent, upstanding, youthful), 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, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, violent, virulent), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, powerful, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement), рішучий (backboned, categorical, decided, decisive, determinate, determined, drastic, grim, manful, purposeful, purposive, resolute, resolved, stalwart, strong-minded, strong-willed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mạnh mẽ đầy khí lực, mạnh khoẻ, cường tráng mãnh liệt (sturdy). (various references) | |
Welsh | brwysg (drunk). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chich (strong). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contenta, contenti, contentus, crudo, crudum, cruor, dora, doram, dura, durae, duram, dure, dureque, duri, duriora, duriorem, duris, durissimae, durissimam, durissimo, durissimos, durissimum, durius, duro, duros, durum, durus, forte, fortem, fortes, forti, fortia, fortibus, fortior, fortiora, fortiorem, fortiores, fortiori, fortioribus, fortioris, fortiorum, fortis, fortissima, fortissimam, fortissime, fortissimi, fortissimis, fortissimo, fortissimorum, fortissimos, fortissimum, fortissimus, fortium, fortius, strenuis, strenuus, validus, vegetus, vehemens, vehementi, vehementis, vehementissime, vehementissimo, vehementissimum, vehementius, vigens. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | amava, ushta. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | c, wielde. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vigorous": vigorously, vigorousness, vigorousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Vigorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ovigerous, vaborous, vigarous, vigerous, vigores, vigorious, vigorius, vigoros, vigorus, vigourous, viorus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vigorous" (pronounced vi"gerus) |
| 5 | -i" g er u s | rigorous. |
| 3 | -er u s | adulterous, adventurous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, numerous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, slanderous, sonorous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unglamorous, uterus, viviparous, vociferous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-o-o-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: vigours. | |
-2 letters: guiros, vigors, vigour. | |
-3 letters: giros, guiro, sorgo, vigor, virus, visor. | |
-4 letters: giro, goos, guvs, ours, rigs, rugs, sori, sour, vigs, vugs. | |
-5 letters: goo, gor, gos, guv, ors, our, rig, rug, sir, sou, sri, vig, vis, vug. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-o-o-r-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: vigorously. | |
+3 letters: frugivorous, granivorous, outsavoring. | |
+4 letters: overfocusing, vainglorious, vigorousness. | |
+5 letters: graminivorous, overconsuming, overfocussing, overingenious. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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