vigorous
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Vigorous means strong, energetic and active. tree →
2) Vigorous exercise makes you breathe hard and your heart beat fast. tree →
3) Vigorous plants grow strongly and healthily. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE and health lessons: «vigorous exercise», like running or swimming, makes the heart stronger. In science: «stir vigorously». In debates and news: «a vigorous argument». In gardening: vigorous growth.
examples
- Running is a vigorous exercise. tree →
- Children need vigorous play every day. tree →
- Give the mixture a vigorous stir. tree →
- The old man was still vigorous at eighty. tree →
- They had a vigorous debate about school uniform. tree →
- The tomato plants are vigorous this summer. tree →
- A vigorous shake mixed the paint. tree →
- He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, holding his head high. tree →
note
Spelling: vigour (UK) / vigor (US), but the adjective is «vigorous» in both (no «u» after «o»). Adverb: vigorously. Opposite: weak, feeble, gentle.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vigorous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.