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Word definitions for vigorous in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vigorous \Vig"or*ous\, a. [Cf. OF. vigoros, F. vigoureux, LL. vigorosus.] Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a vehement/vigorous denial (= very strong ) ▪ The report led to vehement denials from the minister involved. a vigorous opponent (= one who opposes something with a lot of energy and determination ) ▪ a vigorous ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (early 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French vigrus , Old French vigoros "strong, robust, powerful" (12c., Modern French vigoreux ), from Medieval Latin vigorosus , from Latin vigere "be lively, flourish, thrive" (see vigor ). Related: Vigorously ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Physically strong and active. 2 Rapid of growth. alt. 1 Physically strong and active. 2 Rapid of growth.

Usage examples of vigorous.

The acute ailment reproduced itself in her daughter in spite of an otherwise vigorous constitution.

Art thou an anchorite, good Theos, and wouldst thou have me scourge my flesh and groan, because the gods have given me youth and vigorous manhood?

While the continent of Europe and Africa yielded, without resistance, to the Barbarians, the British island, alone and unaided, maintained a long, a vigorous, though an unsuccessful, struggle, against the formidable pirates, who, almost at the same instant, assaulted the Northern, the Eastern, and the Southern coasts.

I cheated her now and then, but to her own advantage, for a young woman is always more vigorous than a man, and we did not stop till the day began to break.

The status quo in Bermuda was pleasant enough: overemployment, full integration, bicameral legislature, a vigorous tourist economy.

Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where he pursues a vigorous research program in the biogeography of southern hemisphere dinosaurs.

It was a good sound, vigorous and throaty, and it broke the tension in the Brume Hall.

Its ill vigorous pulsing whisked away her near-hysteria and left her clairvoyance and telepathy raw, sensitive and all-enveloping.

Increased communication, increased cultural intercourse, and a prolonged vigorous campaign for cosmopolitanism, had changed the mentality of Europe.

I should be angry with you if my cock was not about to burst in that vigorous cunny of yours.

On the twenty-seventh of May, his majesty went to the house of peers, and, after having given the royal assent to the bills then depending, thanked his parliament, in a speech from the throne, for their vigorous and effectual support.

Afterwards, when fever had hold of me, I dreamt again and again of that bitter, furious creature rising so vigorous and active out of the unknown sea.

But as late as the twenty-eighth month echolalia was present in the highest degree in this very vigorous and intelligent child, for he would at times repeat mechanically the last word of every sentence spoken in his hearing, and even a single word, e.

There is always a battle between the vigorous, wilful child and the grown-up who demands submission from him, and many of these splendidly equipped children are destroyed in the process of educating them.

When called upon to act, he was as vigorous as a twenty-year-old ephebe, and if crossed, would erupt in a deafening string of oaths that would curl the beard of the most blasphemous Spartan in the vicinity.