strong
having strength or power greater than average or expected
How often you will meet it
Rank 448 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 45,446 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- having strength or power greater than average or expected a strong radio signalstrong medicine
- not faint or feeble a strong odor of burning rubber
- having or wielding force or authority also: potent providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect also: potent, stiff a potent toxinpotent liquor
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with also: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable an impregnable fortressfortifications that made the frontier inviolable
- of good quality and condition; solidly built also: solid, substantial a solid foundationseveral substantial timber buildings
strong in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was a face which attracted, broad-browed, clear-eyed, and honest, but not a strong face--yet.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Wife, where be all these blades, I wonder, Pennoned fine fellows, so strong, so gay?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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John ascended the steps, to feel the grasp of a strong hand, to hear a ringing voice.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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In point of numbers they were superior to their antagonists, and had the advantage of a strong position.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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But the strong man was afraid of this woman's reproachful looks; he knew the captivating power that lay in her eyes.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1