Definition of Strong

Strong

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

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.

Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.

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.

Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.

Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.

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.

Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.

Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.

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.

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.

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To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald Reagan

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy