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Strong can be an adverb or an adjective.
strong used as an adverb:
- in a strong manner
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
strong used as an adjective:
- capable of producing great physical force.
"a big strong man" - capable of withstanding great physical force
"a strong foundation" - fast moving water, wind, etc, which has a lot of power.
"The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea." - determined, unyielding
"He is strong in the face of adversity." - highly stimulating to the senses
"a strong light" - having an offensive or intense odor or flavor
"a strong smell" - having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient
"a strong cup of coffee" - having a high alcoholic content
"a strong drink" - inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels
"a strong verb" - not easily subdued or taken
"a strong position" - impressive, good
"You’re working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!"
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is strong?
- Adjective usage: a big strong man
- Adjective usage: Jake was tall and strong.
- Adjective usage: a strong foundation
- Adjective usage: good strong shoes
- Adjective usage: The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.
- Adjective usage: He is strong in the face of adversity.
- Adjective usage: a strong light
- Adjective usage: a strong taste
- Adjective usage: a strong smell
- Adjective usage: a strong cup of coffee
- Adjective usage: a strong medicine
- Adjective usage: a strong drink
- Adjective usage: a strong verb
- Adjective usage: a strong position
- Adjective usage: You’re working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of strong are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of strong, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
