VIGOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vigour mean? 

• VIGOUR (noun)
  The noun VIGOUR has 3 senses:

1. forceful exertion

2. active strength of body or mind

3. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

  Familiarity information: VIGOUR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forceful exertion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

energy; vigor; vigour; zip

Context example:

he's full of zip

Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):

force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigour"):

athleticism; strenuosity (intense energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Active strength of body or mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dynamism; heartiness; vigor; vigour

Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim

Context example:

a remarkable muscularity of style

Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigour"):

verve; vitality (an energetic style)

 Context examples 

The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You give me fresh life and vigour.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Which gratified Mr. Dick so much, that he went at it again with greater vigour than before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The light had come back to his eyes and the colour to his cheeks, as he set himself with great vigour and lucidity to explain the situation.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though the grizzled old fellow could see only on one side, against the youth and vigour of the other he brought into play the wisdom of long years of experience.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He went on with his work with, if possible, renewed and more frenzied vigour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness, and vigour of form, which gave importance to her person.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then he advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got a leg up, and with great vigour and skill succeeded in surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You took me on board when my vigour was exhausted, and I should soon have sunk under my multiplied hardships into a death which I still dread, for my task is unfulfilled.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)