vigor Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun forceful exertion
    energy; vigour; zip.
    • he plays tennis with great energy
    • he's full of zip
  2. noun active strength of body or mind
    vigour; dynamism; heartiness.
  3. noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
    energy; vigour; muscularity; vim.
    • his writing conveys great energy
    • a remarkable muscularity of style

WordNet

Vig"or noun
Etymology
OE. vigour, vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F. vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.
Definitions
  1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
    The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden.
  2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
  3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
    But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. Milton.
    ✍ Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
Vig"or transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To invigorate. Obs. Feltham.

Webster 1913