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VIGOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Example:
a remarkable muscularity of style
Synonyms:
energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigor" is a kind of...):
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigor"):
verve; vitality (an energetic style)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Active strength of body or mind
Synonyms:
dynamism; heartiness; vigor; vigour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigor" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Derivation:
vigorous (characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity)
vigorous (strong and active physically or mentally)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Forceful exertion
Example:
he's full of zip
Synonyms:
energy; vigor; vigour; zip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigor" is a kind of...):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigor"):
athleticism; strenuosity (intense energy)
Derivation:
vigorous (characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity)
vigorous (strong and active physically or mentally)
Context examples:
With this kind of planetary clout, you should push forward with vigor this month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In the same way she had seen his wheel and watch go, and after each event she had seen his vigor bloom again.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It seemed to her that if she could lay her two hands upon that neck that all its strength and vigor would flow out to her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The romance, and beauty, and high vigor of the books were coming true.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The strength that had always poured out from him to her was now flowering in his impassioned voice, his flashing eyes, and the vigor of life and intellect surging in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The blaze of tropic suns was in his face, and in his swelling, resilient muscles was the primordial vigor of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Foolishly, in the past, he had conceived that all well-groomed persons above the working class were persons with power of intellect and vigor of beauty.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It seemed to refine him, to remove from him much of the dross of flesh and the too animal-like vigor that lured her while she detested it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He did not know that he was himself possessed of unusual brain vigor; nor did he know that the persons who were given to probing the depths and to thinking ultimate thoughts were not to be found in the drawing rooms of the world's Morses; nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
