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Definition of Strenuous

1. Adjective. Characterized by or performed with much energy or force. "Strenuous exercise"

2. Adjective. Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance. "Your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"

Definition of Strenuous

1. a. Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.

Definition of Strenuous

1. Adjective. Urgent, ardent, zealous. ¹

2. Adjective. Requiring great exertion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strenuous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strenuous

strengthful strengthfulness strengthier strengthiest strengthing strengthless strengthlessness strengthner strengthners strengths

strengthy strenth strenuity strenuosities strenuosity strenuous (current term) strenuously strenuousness strenuousnesses strep

strep throat strepent streperous strepitous streps strepsipterous strepsirrhine strepsirrhines streptavadin streptavidin

Literary usage of Strenuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"But he did even his nothings in a strenuous strenuous way, and on occasion could make gallant fight ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE strenuous LIFE I stood beside the loud, tumultuous shore; ... The strenuous life is grand; but grander far The placid soul reflecting ..."

3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE strenuous LIFE [Address by Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-fifth President of the United States, Author, Statesman, former Governor of New ..."

4. Works by Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
"THE strenuous LIFE SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, APRIL to, 1899 IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which ..."

5. College and the Future by Richard Ashley Rice (1915)
"XVII THE strenuous LIFE1 THEODORE ROOSEVELT In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the ... Reprinted from the volume entitled The strenuous Life, ..."

6. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... she made a strenuous defence by her counsel; the bill having been first moved the 15th of January, 1697-8, in the house of lords, and proceeded on, ..."

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