1. Strong: bouncing, brawny. Forceful, for- cible, rugged; sinewy, sinewed, or sinewous; stalwart, stanch or staunch, strengthful, sub-stanial, unweakened, adj.; Also: 1. burly—big and strong 2. hefty, husky—big and strong (colloq.) 3. Herculean—amazingly strong and power- ful, like Hercules, the mythical character famed for his strength 4. mainly, virile—having, or exhibiting, manly strength 5. mighty—powerfully strong; physically strong 6. rock-ribbed— very strong, as if ribbed by, or of, rock 7. Tarzanish—prodigious in strength, like the character in the E. R. Burroughs novels 8. titanic—gigantically or tremendously strong 9. wiry—strong and slim 10. withy—strong, but bending easily 2. Strength,n. From sec. 1: brawniness, force or forcefulness, …show more content…
Strong Person,n. From Sec. 1: stalwart; Hercules, husky, tarzad, Titan; also: 1. Atlas—very strong person, after the deity in Greek mythology who supported the world on his shoulders 2. Samson—very strong man, after the Bib-lical …show more content…
Strong in Body or Build: able-bodied, bouncing, burly muscular, robust; robustious (humorous); stalwart, stocky, stout, sturdy, adj. (burliness, muscularity, robustness, stal-wartness, stockiness, stoutness, sturdiness,n. stalwart,n.) 7. Having Strength of Muscles: brawny, muscular,adj. (brawn or brawniness, muscu-larity,n.) 8. Vigorous: bouncing, rugged, sineway, sin-ewed, or sinewous; sound, tough, vibrant, virile (of men),adj. 9. Vigor: birr, pith, ruggedness, sinewiness or sinewousness, soundness, stamina, tough-ness, vibrancy, vigorousness, vim, virility, vitality, zip,n. (stamina,adj.) 10. Vigorous and Young: blooming, youthful, adj. (bloom, youth or youthfulness,n.) 11. To Be in a State of Vigor and Fresh-ness: bloom,v. (bloom,n.) 12. Vigorous and Full of Life: lusty, vital,adj. (lustiness, vitality or vitalness,n.) 13. Vigor of the Physiological Functions of a Bodily Organ or Organs, or of the Body as a Whole: tone, tonicity, or tonus,n. (tonic, adj.) 14. Vigor as of, or Suggestive of, Freshly Growing Plants: verdure,n. 15. Time of Greatest Vigor: bloom. Prime,n. 16. Strong in the Sense of Being Able to Withstand or Endure Fatigue, Injury, Ex-tremes of Temperature, or Similar Hard-ships: hardy, rugged, stalwart, sturdy, tough,