strength
noun
Simple meaning
The quality or degree of being strong.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
strehngkthIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈstɹɛŋkθ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The quality or degree of being strong.
Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
The property of being physically or mentally strong
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
A positive attribute.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The quality or degree of being strong.
Used this way, strength is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use strength
- “The strength of the company's stock in recent weeks.”noun
- “We faced an army of great strength.”noun
- “The strength of his argument settled the matter.”noun
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Close in meaning, but not always interchangeable.
The degree of strength.
The degree to which something achieves results.
Synonym of strong suit.
Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war.
A person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort.
The strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart.
The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field.
A person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort.
An electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity.
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