strong
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
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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”). Related to strict and string.
Inflected forms:
form: stronger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strongest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: strang
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: stronk
pos: adj
tags: alternative
deliberate
misspelling
form: strang
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: stronk
pos: adv
tags: alternative
deliberate
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Capable of producing great physical force.
pos: adj
examples: a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong
The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.
For he was swift as swallow in her flight,
And strong as Lyon in his lordly might.
But what sight is that? It seems a town right in the river, each building standing upon its own foundation, with the deep, strong current of the river sweeping all around it? They are flouring mills operated by the natural current of the stream.
gloss: Capable of withstanding great physical force.
pos: adj
examples: a strong foundation; good strong shoes
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.
gloss: Possessing power, might, or strength.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: A wise man is strong, yea a man of knowledge encreaseth strength.
Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh from the sea.
Outgassing of oxygen is strongest when primary production rates are greatest; ingassing is at a maximum during net respiration.
“Homeownership,” says John H. Mollenkopf, executive director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York Graduate Center, “is the strongest predictor of being likely to turn out in local politics and being a bit more conservative and antitax in your general outlook.”
gloss: Determined; unyielding.
pos: adj
examples: The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
Ideas are eternal; they hang in the stars, and a man must be brave and strong enough to reach up to the stars and fetch down the fire from heaven and to carry the torch among men.
It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of “deep learning.”
He is strong in the face of adversity.
gloss: Highly stimulating to the senses.
pos: adj
examples: a strong light; a strong taste
gloss: Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
pos: adj
examples: a strong smell
gloss: Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
pos: adj
examples: a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine
gloss: Having a high alcoholic content.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: a strong drink
She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes
gloss: Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
pos: adj
examples: a strong verb
gloss: Of a form in which the accent is in the leftmost (first) slot allowed in the relevant paradigm, or reflecting an ancestral Proto-Indo-European form in which this was the case, as opposed to tending to shift to the right.
pos: adj
tags: Indo-European-studies
especially
examples: Paradigmatic slots in which the accent and correlating e-grade are positioned further to the left of the word are traditionally termed strong, those with accent and e-grade further to the right, are called weak. In all nouns and verbs which show these alternations, the strong and the weak forms are predictable from the morphological category […].
PIE strong stems were most frequently in the full grade (e-grade), less often in the o-grade (though more common in thematic nouns and stative verbs) and least often in the zero grade.
gloss: Of a form in which the accent is in the leftmost (first) slot allowed in the relevant paradigm, or reflecting an ancestral Proto-Indo-European form in which this was the case, as opposed to tending to shift to the right.
pos: adj
tags: Indo-European-studies
especially
examples: Strong *dʰéh₁-mn̥, weak *dʰh₁-mén-.
gloss: Of a form in which the accent is in the leftmost (first) slot allowed in the relevant paradigm, or reflecting an ancestral Proto-Indo-European form in which this was the case, as opposed to tending to shift to the right.
pos: adj
tags: Indo-European-studies
especially
examples: Strong *dʰéh₁- (e.g. *dʰéh₁m̥ (“I put”), *dʰéh₁oh₂ (“I would put”)), weak *dʰh₁- (e.g. *dʰh₁ént (“they all put”), active participle *dʰh₁ónts, *dʰh₁tó (“(he/she/it) is placed”), middle participle *dʰh₁m̥h₁nós).
gloss: That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.
pos: adj
examples: a strong acid; a strong base
gloss: Not easily subdued or taken.
pos: adj
examples: a strong position
gloss: Having wealth or resources.
pos: adj
examples: a strong economy
gloss: Impressive, good.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
examples: You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!
gloss: Having a specified number of people or units.
pos: adj
examples: The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.
Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong,
When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas
Haue met vs by the riuer Araris:
And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King,
That now is marching neere to Parthia.
gloss: Severe; very bad or intense.
pos: adj
examples: Physicians may diagnosis influenza by a throat culture or blood test, which may be important if you have a particularly strong flu, if your doctor suspects pneumonia or a bacterial infection.
gloss: Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)
pos: adj
gloss: Convincing.
pos: adj
examples: […] but grounding him ſelfe vpon ſtrong reaſons, to wit, that he had not offended the Iewes, neither yet the Law, but that he was innocēt, and therefore that no iudge oght to geue hym in the hādes of his ennemies […]
gloss: In a strong manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As a salesperson I always come on strong.
Antonyms: forcelessly
powerlessly
weakly
Related words: strength
Derived words: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
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strongwoman
superstrong
the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
unstrong
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