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| Main Entry: | robust |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, prosperous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger*, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zippy*, booming, fit as fiddle, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, powerhouse, prospering, roaring, robustious, robustuous, zappy |
| Antonyms: | flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | able-bodied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically strong and capable |
| Synonyms: | firm, fit, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, lusty, powerful, robust, staunch, stout, strapping*, sturdy, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | delicate, infirm, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adaptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adjusting |
| Synonyms: | flexible, robust, modifying |
| Main Entry: | brawny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | muscular, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, beefy, bulky, burly, fleshy, hardy, hefty, husky, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strapping, sturdy, tough, vigorous, vital, thewy |
| Antonyms: | frail, skinny, slight, thin, weak |
| Main Entry: | buxom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bosomy |
| Synonyms: | ample, built, chubby, comely, curvaceous, healthy, hearty, lusty, plump, robust, shapely, voluptuous, well-made, well-rounded, busty, curvy, full-bosomed, full-figured, stacked, well-proportioned, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | flat, petite, small |
| Main Entry: | earthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, coarse, crude, down, down-to-earth*, dull, easygoing, folksy, funky*, hard-boiled*, homely, homey, indelicate, lusty, mundane, natural, pragmatic, ribald, robust, rough, simple, uninhibited, unrefined, down home, home folk, lowbred, unidealistic |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Antonyms: | cultured, elegant, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prospering, going well |
| Synonyms: | blooming, exuberant, growing, lush, luxuriant, profuse, prosperous, rampant, rank, rich, robust, successful, thriving, vigorous, burgeoning, doing well, expanding, going strong, in full swing, in the pink, in top form, mushrooming, roaring |
| Antonyms: | failing, languishing, stunted, ceasing, decreasing, undeveloping |
| Main Entry: | full-blooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | purebred; strong |
| Synonyms: | hardy, hearty, powerful, robust, sound, thoroughbred, vigorous, virile, vital, unmixed |
| Main Entry: | gusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | windy |
| Synonyms: | airy, blustery, breezy, hearty, robust, stormy, tempestuous, blowy, blustering, squally |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | hale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong and healthy |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, blooming, fit, flourishing, healthy, hearty, husky, right, robust, sane, sound, stout, strapping, strong, trim, vigorous, well, wholesome, alive and kicking, fit as a fiddle, in fine fettle, in the pink, well-conditioned |
| Antonyms: | sick, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | hardy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, tough |
| Synonyms: | able, able-bodied, brawny, burly, capable, enduring, firm, fit, fresh, hale, hardened, healthy, hearty, hefty, indefatigable, lusty, mighty, muscular, powerful, resistant, robust, rugged, seasoned, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, stout, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, unflagging, vigorous, well, acclimatized, in fine fettle, in good condition, in good shape, inured, physically fit |
| Antonyms: | feeble, infirm, invalid, sick, tender, unhealthy, weak |
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high-powered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, controlling, dominant, dynamic, effective, effectual, forceful, forcible, influential, mighty, potent, robust, ruling, strong, supreme, weighty, in control, in the saddle |
| Main Entry: | iron |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, tough; inflexible |
| Synonyms: | adamant, cruel, dense, firm, heavy, immovable, implacable, indomitable, inexorable, insensible, obdurate, relentless, rigid, robust, steel, strong, stubborn, thick, unbending, unyielding, adamantine, ferric, ferrous, steely |
| Antonyms: | flexible, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | lusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, healthy |
| Synonyms: | brawny, dynamic, hale, hearty, potent, powerful, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strenuous, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous, vital, red-blooded |
| Antonyms: | lethargic, unhealthy, weak, unenergetic |
| Main Entry: | muscular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerfully built |
| Synonyms: | Herculean*, able-bodied, athletic, brawny, burly, fibrous, hefty, husky, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, stout, strapping, stringy, strong, sturdy, tiger*, tough, vigorous, wiry, bruising, hulky, muscled, powerhouse, pumped up, ripped, ropy, well-built |
| Antonyms: | delicate, flabby, infirm, skinny, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | potent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful, forceful |
| Synonyms: | almighty, authoritative, cogent, commanding, compelling, convincing, dominant, dynamic, efficacious, forcible, full-bodied, great, gutsy*, impressive, influential, lusty, mighty, persuasive, punchy, robust, spanking, stiff, strong, sturdy, telling, trenchant, useful, vigorous, ball of fire, go-getter, powerhouse, puissant |
| Antonyms: | disabled, fragile, helpless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | powerful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, almighty, authoritarian, authoritative, capable, cogent, commanding, compelling, competent, controlling, convincing, dominant, dynamic, effectual, efficacious, energetic, forceful, forcible, impressive, influential, mighty, omnipotent, paramount, persuasive, potent, preeminent, prevailing, robust, ruling, sovereign, stalwart, strapping*, sturdy, supreme, telling, upper hand*, vigorous, weighty, wicked*, all-powerful, in control, in the saddle, overruling, puissant, strengthy, wieldy |
| Antonyms: | impotent, incapable, ineffective, unable, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vivacious |
| Synonyms: | agile, alert, brisk, energetic, fleet, healthy, lithe, nimble, prompt, quick, ready, robust, sound, spirited, sprightly, supple, vigorous, full of pep, in full swing, on the go, quick on the draw, rocking |
| Antonyms: | inactive, lethargic, old, unaware, unenergetic |
| Main Entry: | stalwart |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strong, valiant |
| Synonyms: | athletic, bold, bound, bound and determined, brave, brawny, courageous, daring, dauntless, dependable, fearless, forceful, gutsy*, hefty, husky, indomitable, intrepid, lusty, muscular, nervy*, redoubtable, robust, rugged, sinewy, solid, spunky*, staunch, steamroller, stout, stouthearted, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough, unafraid, undaunted, valorous, vigorous, brick-wall, dead set on, hanging tough, powerhouse |
| Antonyms: | cowardly, meek, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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