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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortitude |
| Synonyms: | endurance, grit, guts*, hardiness, resilience, resistance, stamina, steadfastness, strength, toughness, vigor |
| Antonyms: | intolerance, proneness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stick-to-it-iveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance |
| Synonyms: | doggedness, endurance, grit, persistence, stamina, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| Main Entry: | peppiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go*, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice*, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch*, spirit, spontaneity, sprightliness, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sprightliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go*, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice*, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz*, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch*, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiber |
| Synonyms: | cord, cotton, filament, flax, floss, ligature, lint, lisle, pile, ravel, raveling, silk, stamen, staple, strand, string, thrum, twine, warp, weft, wire, woof, wool, yarn |
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| Main Entry: | health |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ambulatory, antephialtic, as well as can be expected, benign, bracing, brave, cacogastric, circadian, clean, dinic, errhine, florid, flush, for, fresh as April, fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, good for, green, hale, hardy, harmless, healthful, healthy, hearty, hearty as a buck, hemagogue, hematose, hygeian, hygienic, in fine feather, in full bloom, in good case, in health, in high feather, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, invigorating, lipothymic, low tar, macrosmatic, micturient, not, on, on one's legs, prophylactic, pruritic, psychosomatic, ptarmic, restorative, revalescent, roborant, robust, rough and ugly, safe and sound, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanative, sanatory, sanitary, sound, sound as a bell, sound as a roach, sound of mind and body, sound of wind, stanch, staunch, stenotic, terminal, tolerably well, tonic, uninfectious, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, unscathed, untainted, useful, vigorous, well, whole, wholesome
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| Main Entry: | persistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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constant, game to the last, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, never, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, sedulous, solid, staunch, steadfast, steady, steady as time, strenuous, sturdy, true to oneself, unchangeable, unconquerable, undeviating, undrooping, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied
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| Concept: | [Uninterrupted sequence] Continuity. |
| Category: | 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER |
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-nouns
continuity; consecution, consecutiveness; succession, round, suite, progression, series, train, chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent., procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array., pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain., rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.
-verbs
follow in a series, form a series; fall in., arrange in a series, collate; string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
-adjectives
continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row; uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting; perennial, evergreen; constant.
-adverbs
continuously; seriatim; in a line; in succession, in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch; in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.
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| Antonyms: | discontinuity |
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| Concept: | Health. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
health, sanity; soundness; vigor; good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health; bloom; mens sana in corpore sano; Hygeia; incorruption, incorruptibility; good state of health, clean bill of health; eupepsia; euphoria, euphory; St. Anthony's fire.
-verbs
be in health bloom, flourish., keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health, enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health., return to health; recover; get better (improve); take a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure (restore); tinker.
-adjectives
healthy, healthful; in health; well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof., unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and limb, safe and sound., on one's legs; sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected., sanitary (health-giving) [more]; sanatory (remedial).
-phrases
"health that snuffs the morning air" [Grainger]; non est vivere sed valere vita [Martial].
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| Antonyms: | disease |
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