strenuous
part of speech
adjective (strenuous, more strenuous, most strenuous)
meaning for a pupil
1) Strenuous means needing a lot of effort, energy or strength: a strenuous climb. tree →
2) Strenuous can describe very determined effort: strenuous efforts to save the forest. tree →
sense in the lessons
PE and health: strenuous exercise makes your heart beat fast and your breathing heavy; warm up first and drink water. Doctors may tell someone ill to avoid strenuous activity. News: «made strenuous efforts» means tried very hard. Formal register, common in reports and exam texts.
examples
- The climb up the mountain was strenuous. tree →
- Avoid strenuous exercise after a big meal. tree →
- After the strenuous match, we were exhausted. tree →
- Volunteers made strenuous efforts to clean the beach. tree →
- Moving house is strenuous work. tree →
- The doctor said no strenuous activity for a week. tree →
note
Said «STREN-yoo-us». Adverb: strenuously (he strenuously denied it = denied it very strongly). Similar: tiring, demanding, exhausting. Opposite: easy, effortless, gentle.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «strenuous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.