Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VIII. Causation
2. Connection Between Cause and Effect
159. [Degree of Power.] Strength.
[COMPARISONS] adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; bone.
VIRILITY, vitality; stoutness &c. adj.; lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew or sinews, thews and sinews, physique; grit, pith, pithiness.
ATHLETICS, athleticism; gymnastics, acrobatism, agonistics, feats of strength.
ATHLETE, gymnast, pancratiast, acrobat; Atlas, Hercules, Antæus, Samson, Cyclops, Briareus, Colossus, Polyphemus, Titan, Brobdingnagian, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed
STRENGTHENING &c. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation [obs.].
[SCIENCE OF FORCES] dynamics, statics.
RENDER STRONG &c. adj.; give strength &c. n.; strengthen, invigorate, potentiate [rare], brace, nerve, fortify, buttress, sustain, harden, caseharden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird -, brace-up one’s loins; recruit, set on one’s legs [colloq.]; vivify; refresh [See Refreshment]; refect [archaic], reinforce or reënforce (restore) [See Restoration].
RESISTLESS, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all-powerful, all-sufficient; sovereign.
ABLE-BODIED; athletic, gymnastic, carobatic, agonistic, palæstral [rare]; Herculean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Titanic, Cyclopean, Atlantean; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, sinewous [rare], strapping, stalwart, gigantic.
MANLY, manlike, manful; masculine, male, virile, in the prime of manhood.
UNWEAKENED, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted; in full force, in full swing; in the plentitude of power.
SOUND; stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as -a lion, – an ox, – a horse – brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather [both colloq.]; like a giant refreshed.