(superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power
to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
(superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear
or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong
health.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a
strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
(superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong
house, or company of merchants.
(superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to
strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a
strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of
alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
(superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light,
colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
(superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
(superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or
altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
(superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
(superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) 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.
