Definitions
American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of vigor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See vigor.
Wiktionary
- n. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
- n. biology Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
- n. Strength; efficacy; potency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. active strength of body or mind
- n. forceful exertion
- n. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman vigour, from Old French vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeoĀ ("thrive, flourish"), from Proto-Indo-European. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Your honesty and vigour is pretty inspiring, and I enjoy your style.”
“I hasten to assure you that this law no longer is in vigour, so I can safely continue.”
“The soul of Alleyn seemed to acquire new vigour from the conflict; he fought like a man panting for honour, and certain of victory; wherever he rushed, conquest flew before him.”
“We remember with a thrill of pride that England produced Shakespeare, but we must also remember that this great Dominion of ours, flung from sea to sea, with a national life as bounding in vigour as it is defective in character, with the stamp of bigness on both its accomplishment and its promise, is without a stage of its own, is without a school of dramatists, is without one dramatic composition in, any way expressive of its wider issues.”
“For by this proportion it will never fail, but a hundred shall be found excelling in mental vigour, that is, on the hypothesis that, out of fifty that seek and obtain office, one will always be found not less than first-rate, besides others that imitate the virtues of the first-rate, and are therefore worthy to rule.”
“A vitality, a vigour, which is infectious owing to its strength and intractability and to the paradoxical freedom it possesses as against what is related.”
“Then it comes to life and continues nourishing itself on this food and on devout meditation until it has attained full vigour, which is the essential point, for I attach no importance to the rest.”
“Their vigour is an important part of the liveliness of our democracy.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Events are consistent with my December, 2010, column, which concluded: "While the behaviour of real interest rates suggests that the economic outlook may look better in the U.S. than in Canada, my view is that it will not be characterized by vigour in either country and much of the growth will be inflationary.”
“I endeavoured to give both to her mind and body a degree of vigour, which is seldom found in the female sex.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vigour’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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magic
words for your grimiore
prophecy, necromancy, grimoire, tasseography, palmisrty, talisman, pentical, beshrew, soothsaying, paranormal, supernatural, magic and 39 more...
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V WORDS
Words pertaining to growth, nurturing, feminity.
verdant, vestal, valkyr, Valhalla, Valkyrie, vacant, verbose, vindicative, vacilate, vanish, valid, verdure and 8 more...
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Words I like
nipple, nostril, undercarriage, retina, bic, implement, lozenge, brick, trickle, bulbous, yemen, gasp and 6 more...
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zeal
zeal, zest, zing, vigour, energetic, active, vitality, enthusiasm, passion, obsession, reckless, restless and 5 more...
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-ou, -ise Appreciation List
A list of words that deserve their 'British' spelling. Use of the American method ought to be punishable by death.
colour, humour, vigour, aluminium, favourite, ostracise, realise, compromise
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