vigour
Meanings
Plural: vigours
Noun
- forceful exertion
- active strength of body or mind
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
- Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
- Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
- Strength; efficacy; potency.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”).
Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.
Synonyms
dynamism, energy, heartiness, muscularity, vigor, vim, zip
Scrabble Score: 10
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