Strong Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Strong? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Words starting with Strong, Antonyms, Synonyms, Words ending with Strong, Derivations, Related sentences, How to pronounce? Example sentences and more...

Word: Strong

How to pronounce: strɒŋ

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks.

Example sentences: "She cut through the water with her strong arms"

2. Able to withstand great force or pressure.

Example sentences: "Cotton is strong, hard-wearing, and easy to handle"

3. Very intense.

Example sentences: "A strong smell"

4. Used after a number to indicate the size of a group.

5. Denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by a change of vowel within the stem rather than by addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum).

6. Relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10⁻¹³ cm (so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge), and which conserves strangeness, parity, and isospin.

Example sentences: "Protons and neutrons are held together in a nucleus of an atom by the strong force."

Synonyms:

powerful

rugged

lasting

robust

weighty

durable

influential

heavy

stiff

tough