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strenuous

adj
/ˈstɹɛ.nju.əs/

Etymology

From Latin strenuus (“quick”).

  1. derived from strenuus — “quick”

Definitions

  1. Having great vigour or energy

    Having great vigour or energy; forceful.

    • strenuous exercise
    • strenuous activity

  2. Requiring great exertion

    Requiring great exertion; very laborious.

    • We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
    • Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.

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Derived

nonstrenuous, overstrenuous, strenuously, strenuousness, superstrenuous, ultrastrenuous, unstrenuous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at strenuous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01strenuous02laborious03difficult04easy05effort06endeavor07strenuously

A definitional loop anchored at strenuous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at strenuous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA