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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? English vigorous From Anglo-Norman vigrus, from Old French vigoros (whence French vigoureux), from Medieval Latin vigōrōsus, from Latin vigor. Doublet of vigoroso.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vigorous (comparative more vigorous, superlative most vigorous)
- Physically strong and active.
- Synonym: (informal) two-fisted
a vigorous scrub a vigorous search
1895, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 280:Life in the country will be fuller, richer, and more comfortful, because it is freer, healthier, and more vigorous.
1976, Joni Mitchell, “Song for Sharon”:Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
Circling in singles and in pairs
In this vigorous anonymity
- Mentally strong and active.
- Rapid of growth.
a vigorous shrub
Derived terms
Translations
physically strong and active
- Albanian: ardhangët (sq)
- Armenian: զորեղ (hy) (zoreġ)
- Bhojpuri: जोरदार (jōrᵊdār)
- Bulgarian: силен (bg) (silen), мощен (bg) (mošten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 剛勁 / 刚劲 (zh) (gāngjìng), 精力充沛的 (jīnglìchōngpèi de), 轟轟烈烈的 / 轰轰烈烈的 (zh) (hōnghōnglièliè de)
- Dutch: krachtig (nl), sterk (nl)
- Esperanto: vigla
- Finnish: ponteva (fi), tarmokas (fi)
- Galician: vigoroso
- Georgian: ძლიერი (ʒlieri), ენერგიული (energiuli), მხნე (mxne)
- German: kräftig (de), stark (de), energisch (de), lebhaft (de), kraftvoll (de), heftig (de), flott (de), rüstig (de), eifrig (de), lebendig (de)
- Greek: ακμαίος (el) (akmaíos), ρωμαλέος (el) (romaléos)
- Ancient Greek: εὔτονος (eútonos), γοργός (gorgós), αἰζηός (aizēós) (Epic)
- Hindi: ज़ोरदार (zordār)
- Hungarian: makkegészséges (hu)
- Irish: bríomhar, ceolmhar, neartmhar, fuinniúil
- Italian: vigoroso (it)
- Japanese: 精力的 (ja) (seiryokuteki)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xurt (ku)
- Latin: vegetus, vigrus, strēnuus
- Māori: tūperepere, hauoraora, tūkaha, mākā
- Polish: energiczny (pl)
- Portuguese: vigoroso (pt)
- Romanian: viguros (ro)
- Russian: си́льный (ru) (sílʹnyj), энерги́чный (ru) (energíčnyj)
- Spanish: vigoroso (es), viripotente
- Swedish: kraftfull (sv)
- Turkish: dinç (tr), canlı (tr), diri (tr), zinde (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: دینج (dinc) (active, energetic)
- Ukrainian: сильний m (sylʹnyj), енергійний m (enerhijnyj), інтенсивний m (intensyvnyj)
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References
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “2. The Vowel Sounds of Unstressed and Partially Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § II.1, page 60.
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