Vigorous
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

HALE
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)

5 letters

BRISK
Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

HARDY
English novelist and poet (1840-1928)

LUSTY
Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health"

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STRONG
Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

LIVELY
Full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"

ROBUST
Rough and crude; "a robust tale"

ABLAZE
Lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"

ACTIVE
Chemical agent capable of activity

ARDENT
Characterized by strong enthusiasm; "ardent revolutionaries"; "warm support"

BITING
Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

BRAWNY
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

COGENT
Powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

FERVID
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

HEARTY
Consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"

HEATED
Marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"

LIVING
Still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"

MIGHTY
(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily"

ONFIRE
Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire"

PIPING
Playing a pipe or the bagpipes

POTENT
Having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"

PUNCHY

REDHOT
A frankfurter served hot on a bun

RUGGED
Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

RULING
The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

SINEWY
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

SNAPPY
Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

STEAMY
Hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"

STEELY
Resembling steel in hardness

STURDY
Substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"

VISCID
Having the sticky properties of an adhesive

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DYNAMIC
(used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

ROUSING
The act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions"

DRASTIC
Forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"

DRIVING
The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

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FORCEFUL
Forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"

ANIMATED
Having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

ATHLETIC
Having a sturdy and well proportioned body; "an athletic build"

YOUTHFUL
Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age"

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CONCERTED
Involving the joint activity of two or more; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities"

ENERGETIC
Working hard to promote an enterprise

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RIPSNORTING