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- [vig-er]
- /ˈvɪg ər/
- /ˈvɪɡ.ər/
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- [vig-er]
- /ˈvɪg ər/
Definitions of vigor word
- noun vigor active strength or force. 1
- noun vigor healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality. 1
- noun vigor energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor. 1
- noun vigor force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant. 1
- noun vigor active or effective force, especially legal validity. 1
- noun vigor energy 1
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Origin of vigor
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English vigo(u)r < Anglo-French; Middle French vigeur < Latin vigor force, energy, equivalent to vig(ēre) to be vigorous, thrive + -or -or1
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Parts of speech for Vigor
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
vigor popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
vigor usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for vigor
noun vigor
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- ambition — If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
- animation — Animation is the process of making films in which drawings or puppets appear to move.
- assertiveness — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
Antonyms for vigor
noun vigor
- acedia — spiritual sloth or apathy
- blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
- boredom — Boredom is the state of being bored.
- burnout — If someone suffers burnout, they exhaust themselves at an early stage in their life or career because they have achieved too much too quickly.
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
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