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say it: strawng
strong is an adjective meaning "having strength or power greater than average or expected". It carries 10 recorded senses.
having a strong physiological or chemical effect
“a potent toxin”
“potent liquor”
“a potent cup of tea”
“a stiff drink”
immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
“an impregnable fortress”
“fortifications that made the frontier inviolable”
“a secure telephone connection”
of good quality and condition; solidly built
“a solid foundation”
“several substantial timber buildings”
of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
“`sing' is a strong verb”
grammar
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for strong come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.