Synonyms for strong
strɔŋ, strɒŋ; ˈstrɔŋ gər, ˈstrɒŋ-; ˈstrɔŋ gɪst, ˈstrɒŋ-strong

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1. strongadjective

   not easily subdued or taken

   a strong position

   Synonyms:
   inviolable, secure, unattackable, impregnable, unassailable

   Antonyms:
   weak

2. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   irregular

   Antonyms:
   weak, regular

3. strongadjective

   in a strong manner

   Synonyms:
   powerful, forceful, vigorously, forcefully, powerfully, strongly

   Antonyms:
   forcelessly, powerlessly, weakly, forceless, weak

4. strongadjective

   capable of withstanding great physical force

   Synonyms:
   sturdy, durable, tough

   Antonyms:
   fragile

5. strongadjective

   determined, unyielding

   He is strong in the face of adversity.

   Synonyms:
   determined, zealous, unyielding, ardent

6. strongadjective

   highly stimulating to the senses

   Synonyms:
   extreme, intense

7. strongadjective

   having an offensive or intense odor or flavor

   a strong smell

   Synonyms:
   rank

8. strongadjective

   having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient

   Synonyms:
   potent, concentrated

   Antonyms:
   diluted, weak, impotent

9. strongadjective

   having a high alcoholic content

   a strong drink

   Synonyms:
   hard

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1. strong

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, vigorous, well, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

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1. strong

   Synonyms:
   powerful, vigorous, solid, secure, fortified, forcible, impetuous, hale, hearty, brawny, sinewy, sound, robust, cogent, influential, zealous, potent, pungent muscular, hardy, stanch, tenacious

   Antonyms:
   powerless, weak, frail, insecure, defenceless, feeble, mild, calm, gentle, delicate, sickly, inefficacious, unsatisfactory, unconvincing, unimpressive, vapid, impotent, unavailing, lukewarm, debile, flaccid, nerveless, tender, moderate, indifferent

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1. strongadjective

   having strength or power greater than average or expected

   "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"

   Synonyms:
   firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, potent, unattackable, solid, impregnable, secure, substantial

   Antonyms:
   puny, pallid, anaemic, unsound, shoddy, weakened, lame, flimsy, spineless, pale, vulnerable, regular, feeble, unforceful, sick, wishy-washy, stale, wan, asthenic, debilitated, anemic, forceless, gutless, faint, weak, namby-pamby, nonalcoholic, powerless, adynamic, mild, enervated, jerry-built

2. strongadjective

   not faint or feeble

   "a strong odor of burning rubber"

   Synonyms:
   firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, potent, unattackable, solid, impregnable, secure, substantial

   Antonyms:
   namby-pamby, mild, unforceful, vulnerable, pale, spineless, wishy-washy, lame, weak, feeble, sick, shoddy, powerless, weakened, jerry-built, forceless, flimsy, anaemic, debilitated, anemic, puny, pallid, adynamic, gutless, asthenic, regular, wan, enervated, faint, stale, nonalcoholic, unsound

3. potent, strongadjective

   having or wielding force or authority

   "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

   Synonyms:
   firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, potent, virile, unattackable, solid, impregnable, powerful, secure, substantial

   Antonyms:
   wishy-washy, forceless, shoddy, feeble, unsound, pale, anaemic, namby-pamby, weakened, regular, wan, debilitated, vulnerable, pallid, weak, powerless, faint, gutless, flimsy, jerry-built, spineless, sick, enervated, mild, asthenic, unforceful, anemic, nonalcoholic, adynamic, stale, puny, lame

4. potent, strong, stiffadjective

   having a strong physiological or chemical effect

   "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

   Synonyms:
   stiff, slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, inviolable, besotted, solid, secure, buckram, warm, unassailable, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, substantial, powerful, plastered, fuddled, tight, firm, hard, unattackable, soused, soaked, sozzled, virile, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, blotto, unwavering, rigid, impregnable, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, potent, starchy, loaded, wet, steady

   Antonyms:
   adynamic, powerless, namby-pamby, sick, wishy-washy, unforceful, wan, regular, jerry-built, shoddy, unsound, enervated, anaemic, weakened, weak, nonalcoholic, spineless, debilitated, stale, feeble, pallid, puny, flimsy, pale, vulnerable, lame, mild, gutless, anemic, asthenic, forceless, faint

5. impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackableadjective

   immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

   "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection"

   Synonyms:
   conceptive, potent, watertight, dependable, safe, absolute, substantial, inviolate, untroubled, inviolable, unshakable, untouchable, warm, good, stiff, inexpugnable, unafraid, infrangible, unattackable, unassailable, bulletproof, firm, solid, sacrosanct, hard, impregnable, secure

   Antonyms:
   feeble, unforceful, wishy-washy, weakened, asthenic, mild, anaemic, stale, gutless, vulnerable, pale, powerless, faint, weak, flimsy, pallid, debilitated, lame, puny, namby-pamby, regular, wan, shoddy, spineless, anemic, sick, jerry-built, nonalcoholic, forceless, enervated, unsound, adynamic

6. solid, strong, substantialadjective

   of good quality and condition; solidly built

   "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"

   Synonyms:
   self-colored, whole, potent, inviolable, unanimous, self-coloured, substantial, stiff, material, upstanding, significant, hearty, warm, satisfying, hard, real, substantive, solid, unassailable, square, firm, unattackable, impregnable, secure

   Antonyms:
   wan, gutless, sick, lame, anemic, weakened, vulnerable, jerry-built, faint, mild, flimsy, debilitated, spineless, feeble, forceless, powerless, unsound, stale, asthenic, unforceful, weak, anaemic, enervated, nonalcoholic, adynamic, namby-pamby, regular, wishy-washy, shoddy, puny, pale, pallid

7. strongadjective

   of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection

   "`sing' is a strong verb"

   Synonyms:
   firm, inviolable, unassailable, stiff, warm, hard, potent, unattackable, solid, impregnable, secure, substantial

   Antonyms:
   feeble, debilitated, flimsy, weakened, vulnerable, puny, shoddy, regular, wan, anemic, wishy-washy, anaemic, gutless, pale, adynamic, powerless, forceless, jerry-built, unforceful, faint, unsound, namby-pamby, weak, stale, pallid, mild, enervated, nonalcoholic, sick, lame, spineless, asthenic

8. hard, strongadjective

   being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

   "hard liquor"

   Synonyms:
   severe, arduous, grueling, tough, potent, impregnable, toilsome, hard, substantial, unattackable, stiff, inviolable, heavy, voiceless, laborious, difficult, unassailable, knockout, gruelling, solid, intemperate, concentrated, punishing, unvoiced, firm, warm, operose, backbreaking, surd, secure

   Antonyms:
   regular, asthenic, weak, anaemic, stale, forceless, unforceful, pale, faint, mild, shoddy, jerry-built, feeble, sick, adynamic, unsound, debilitated, flimsy, namby-pamby, puny, vulnerable, nonalcoholic, spineless, enervated, lame, powerless, pallid, wishy-washy, wan, weakened, gutless, anemic

9. strong, warmadjective

   freshly made or left

   "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm"

   Synonyms:
   fond, potent, hard, substantial, stiff, inviolable, ardent, warm, quick, tender, solid, unattackable, unassailable, firm, affectionate, lovesome, impregnable, secure

   Antonyms:
   pallid, vulnerable, gutless, feeble, nonalcoholic, faint, jerry-built, weakened, spineless, flimsy, adynamic, asthenic, shoddy, regular, wan, pale, mild, enervated, weak, namby-pamby, forceless, anaemic, stale, unforceful, powerless, anemic, wishy-washy, debilitated, sick, puny, lame, unsound

10. firm, strongadjective

    strong and sure

    "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"

    Synonyms:
    loyal, potent, inviolable, fast(a), substantial, stiff, unfluctuating, fast, unshakable, unfaltering, truehearted, warm, hard, unbendable, steadfast, solid, unattackable, unwavering, unassailable, steady, firm, immobile, impregnable, secure

    Antonyms:
    shoddy, unsound, jerry-built, debilitated, sick, wishy-washy, faint, gutless, forceless, feeble, nonalcoholic, anemic, anaemic, spineless, lame, weak, puny, vulnerable, adynamic, pallid, mild, wan, unforceful, powerless, stale, flimsy, weakened, namby-pamby, enervated, pale, asthenic, regular

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1. blury

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2. strenghtining

   to be strong

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3. yarbrough

   root depth

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1. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   vigorous, robust, sturdy, athletic, brawny, sinewy, muscular, stalwart, herculean, able-bodied, hale, healthy, hardy, stout

2. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   able, capable, efficient, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant

3. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   firm, solid, compact, impregnable, well fortified

4. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   energetic, active, vivid, intense

5. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   violent, impetuous, vehement

6. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   pungent, piquant, biting, sharp, racy, spicy, hot, peppery, high-seasoned, high-flavored

7. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   tenacious, tough, cohesive, resisting, stubborn

8. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   cogent, forcible, impressive, conclusive, persuasive

9. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   ardent, eager, zealous, hearty, earnest

10. strongadjective

    Synonyms:
    10. alcoholic (in a high degree), intoxicating

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1. strongadjective

   Synonyms:
   firm, tough, enduring, hale, sound, robust, hardy, durable, puissant, powerful, mighty, invincible, impregnable, irresistible, fortified, virile, athletic, muscular, brawny, vigorous, stout, strapping, lusty, sturdy, sinewy, stalwart, thewy, able-bodied, violent, forcible, impetuous, vehement, potent, cogent, influential, urgent, convincing, conclusive, ardent, eager, zealous, strenuous, stanch, unwavering, determined, spirituous, intoxicating, alcoholic, vivid, dazzling, intense, glaring, effective, drastic, potent, racy, pungent, piquant, tough, tenacious, rank, strong-smelling, valid

   Antonyms:
   weak, vulnerable, frail, fragile, delicate, faint, mild, frangible

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1. List of paraphrases for "strong":

   solid, powerful, robust, fort, firm, vigorous, strongly, stark, forceful, high, sound, sharp, loud, energetic, solids, heavy, intense, large, severe, potent, great, close, tough, resolute, forte, forces, staunch, hard, strict, steadfast, significant, steep, deep, heavily, ardent, rigorous, important, powers, dynamic, highly, fierce, marked, mighty, good, clear, serious, substantial, decisive, considerable, fervent, major, stringent, vibrant, very, emphatic, keen

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How to use strong in a sentence?

1. Ayako Sera:

   The world economy is in a decent state and the U.S. economy is extremely strong, which means interest rates will continue to be raised. Investors are focusing on signs of the strength of the U.S. economy.

2. William Blake:

   The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

3. Gianni Infantino:

   We need to have women attending – we need to push for that with respect but in a strong and forceful way and we cannot wait anymore, we have been assured, that as of the next international game of Iran, women will be allowed to enter football stadiums.

4. Barack Obama:

   Even though we have been able to reduce the number of folks who are deployed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, there are still folks over there every single day and it's still dangerous, as we saw this past week with the outstanding brave Americans who were killed, and so we never take for granted all what all of you to for the American people. You help keep us free. You help keep us strong. And whatever service you're in, we are extraordinarily grateful for everything you do every single day. And we hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas.

5. Ivan Choy:

   It has been long dominated by conservative and rural forces, if the democrats can get more seats in Yuen Long district, it would mean the support of the movement and the sentiment against the July 21 incident are very strong.