Vigor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Vigor	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Vigor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vigor n forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" Synonym(s): energy, vigor, vigour, zip active strength of body or mind Synonym(s): vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" Synonym(s): energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vigor \Vig"or\, n. [OE. vigour, vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F. vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See {Vegetable}, {Vigil}.] 1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. --Dryden. 2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor. 3. Strength; efficacy; potency. But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. --Milton. Note: Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vigor \Vig"or\, v. t. To invigorate. [Obs.] --Feltham.