English Explanatory Dictionary

strong

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Capable of producing great physical force.
  2. Capable of withstanding great physical force.
  3. Possessing power, might, or strength.
  4. Determined; unyielding.
  5. Highly stimulating to the senses.
  6. Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
  7. Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
  8. Having a high alcoholic content.
  9. Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
  10. That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
  11. Not easily subdued or taken.
  12. Having wealth or resources.
adv
  1. In a strong manner.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. A minor city in Union County, Arkansas.
  4. A township in Chase County, Kansas.
  5. A town in Franklin County, Maine.
  6. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
  7. A census-designated place in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
  8. A township and community therein, in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

strong stronger strongest strang stronk

Etymology

From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang (“strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *strang (“severe, strict, rigorous, strong”), from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”). Cognate with Scots strang (“strong”), Saterland Frisian strang, West Frisian string (“austere, strict, harsh, severe, stern, stark, tough”), Dutch streng (“strict, severe, tight”), German streng (“strict, severe, austere”), Danish and Norwegian streng (“strong, hard”), Faroese and Icelandic strangur (“strict”), Norwegian strang (“strong, harsh, bitter”), Swedish sträng, strang (“severe, strict, harsh”), Latin stringō (“tighten”). Doublet of strict and string.

Synonyms

forceful powerful durable sturdy tough ardent zealous swith extreme intense rank concentrated potent hard impregnable inviolable secure unassailable unattackable forcefully powerfully vigorously strongly

Antonyms

weak forceless fragile diluted impotent forcelessly powerlessly weakly

Related words

strength strong as an ox strong personality strong verb

Derived words

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link antistrong by the strong hand come it strong come on strong electrostrong English strong ale go strong headstrong nonstrong overstrong semistrong stroft strong AI strong-arm strong-armer strong artificial intelligence strong as a bull strong as a horse strong as death strong atheist strongback strongbox strong breeze strong copyleft strong declension strong drink strong enough to trot a mouse on strong equivalence principle strong flour strong force strongful strong gale stronghand strong hand at the tiller strong-handed strong hand on the tiller strongheaded strong-hearted stronghearted stronghold strong interaction strongish strong language strongling stronglink strong localization strongman strong man strong-minded strongness strong nuclear strong nuclear force strong nuclear interaction strong point strongpoint strong reference strong room strong silent type strong suit
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