Crossword clues for strongest
strongest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strong \Strong\, a. [Compar. Stronger; superl. Strongest.] [AS. strang, strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. str["a]ng strict, severe. Cf. Strength, Stretch, String.]
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Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
That our oxen may be strong to labor.
--Ps. cxliv. 14.Orses the strong to greater strength must yield.
--Dryden. Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
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Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
Her mother, ever strong against that match.
--Shak. Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
--Heb. v. 12.Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
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Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears.
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Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.
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Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song, As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong.
--E. Smith. (Stock Exchange) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
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(Gram.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
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Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
--F. A. March.Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; -- called also old conjugation, or irregular conjugation, and distinguished from the weak conjugation or regular conjugation.
Note: Strong is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based, strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-voiced, etc.
Syn: Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See Robust.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: strong)
WordNet
See strong
adj. having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" [ant: weak]
not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"
having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons" [syn: potent]
having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea" [syn: potent] [ant: impotent]
able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" [syn: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable]
of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn: solid, substantial]
of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"
having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: hard]
freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm" [syn: warm]
strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" [syn: firm]
Usage examples of "strongest".
The strongest and most impressive personalities, it is true, like Macaulay, Thiers, and the two greatest of living writers, Mommsen and Treitschke, project their own broad shadow upon their pages.
Unfortunately the strongest bond of union amongst them is an apprehension of Popery.
It was the unswerving policy of Rome that it should not be united with the Empire, and against that fixed axiom the strongest dynasty of emperors went to pieces.
Lorenzo Valla, the strongest of the Italian Humanists, is also the one who best exhibits the magnitude of the change that was going on in the minds of men.
It was strongest and most apparent among laymen, for a famous monastic writer of the fourteenth century testified that the laity led better lives than the clergy.
Eck joined with Cajetan in urging the strongest measures of repression.
That Council was the venerated safeguard of Catholic and Imperial reformers, and the strongest weapon of opposition to Rome.
Angelo, or a fugitive at Orvieto, with the strongest motive for resentment against the author of his humiliation.
They were strongest in Dauphiny, which was near Geneva, and at Lyons, which was a centre of trade.
Luynes, governed for a time, until the queen obtained the first post for an adviser of her own, who was the strongest Frenchman of the old regime.
The Stuarts owed something to each of the two strongest and most obvious currents of political thought in their time.
The cities, as in Germany, were the strongest centers of the movement.
Berne, the strongest, pursued selfish policies of individual aggrandizement at the expense of their confederates.
The significance of this evolution, one of the strongest tendencies of modern history, is that it squares the outward political condition of the people with their inward desires.
The throne, once the strongest ally of the church, was now supported chiefly by the Huguenots who had formerly been in rebellion.