Definition: strong and sure
Usage: a firm grasp; gave a strong pull on the rope
Similar words: forceful
Definition: characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical)
Usage: a forceful speaker; a forceful personality; forceful measures; a forceful plan for peace
Definition: freshly made or left
Usage: a warm trail; the scent is warm
Similar words: fresh
Definition: recently made, produced, or harvested
Usage: fresh bread; a fresh scent; fresh lettuce
Definition: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
Usage: hard liquor
Synonyms: strong
Definition: not faint or feeble
Usage: a strong odor of burning rubber
Similar words: intense
Definition: possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
Usage: intense heat; intense anxiety; intense desire; intense emotion; the skunk's intense acrid odor; intense pain; enemy fire was intense
Synonyms: stiff, strong, potent
Definition: having a strong physiological or chemical effect
Usage: a potent toxin; potent liquor; a potent cup of tea, a stiff drink
Similar words: equipotent
Definition: having equal strength or efficacy
Similar words: multipotent
Definition: able to many things
Usage: multipotent drugs
Definition: having or wielding force or authority
Usage: providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons
Similar words: powerful
Definition: having great power or force or potency or effect
Usage: the most powerful government in western Europe; his powerful arms; a powerful bomb; the horse's powerful kick; powerful drugs; a powerful argument
Synonyms: strong
Definition: of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
Usage: `sing' is a strong verb
Similar words: irregular
Definition: contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
Usage: irregular hiring practices
Synonyms: solid, substantial, strong
Definition: of good quality and condition; solidly built
Usage: a solid foundation; several substantial timber buildings
Similar words: sound
Definition: in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
Usage: a sound timber; the wall is sound; a sound foundation
Synonyms: strong
Definition: having strength or power greater than average or expected
Usage: a strong radio signal; strong medicine; a strong man
Similar words: beardown
Definition: with full strength
Usage: his beardown performance in the exhibition game
Similar words: beefed-up
Definition: made greater or stronger
Usage: beefed-up sales efforts
Similar words: brawny, powerful, muscular, sinewy, hefty
Definition: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
Usage: a hefty athlete; a muscular boxer; powerful arms
Similar words: bullnecked
Definition: having a thick short powerful neck
Similar words: bullocky
Definition: resembling a bullock in strength and power
Usage: thick bullocky shoulders
Similar words: fortified
Definition: having something added to increase the strength
Usage: fortified wine
Similar words: knockout, hard, severe
Definition: very strong or vigorous
Usage: strong winds; a hard left to the chin; a knockout punch; a severe blow
Similar words: weapons-grade, industrial-strength
Definition: extremely strong or concentrated or durable
Usage: industrial-strength detergent; weapons-grade salsa
Similar words: ironlike
Definition: exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron
Usage: ironlike determination; ironlike nerves; ironlike discipline of the Marines
Similar words: knock-down, powerful
Definition: strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
Usage: a knock-down blow
Similar words: noticeable
Definition: readily noticed
Usage: a noticeable resemblance
Similar words: reinforced, strengthened
Definition: given added strength or support
Usage: reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting
Similar words: robust
Definition: strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity
Usage: the experiment yielded robust results; a robust faith
Similar words: stiff
Definition: powerful
Usage: a stiff current; a stiff breeze
Similar words: vehement
Definition: characterized by great force or energy
Usage: vehement deluges of rain; vehement clapping; a vehement defense
Similar words: virile
Definition: characterized by energy and vigor
Usage: a virile and ever stronger free society; a new and virile leadership
Similar words: well-knit, well-set
Definition: strongly and firmly constructed
Usage: a well-knit argument; a well-knit theatrical production; well-knit athletes; a sailor short but well-set- Alexander Hamilton
Synonyms: inviolable, impregnable, unassailable, unattackable, strong, secure
Definition: immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
Usage: an impregnable fortress; fortifications that made the frontier inviolable; a secure telephone connection
Similar words: invulnerable
Definition: immune to attack; impregnable
Usage: gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs