1. Strong: bouncing, brawny. Forceful, for- cible, rugged; sinewy, sinewed, or sinewous; stalwart, stanch or staunch, strengthful, sub-stanial, unweakened, adj.; Also: 1. burly—big and strong 2. hefty, husky—big and strong (colloq.) 3. Herculean—amazingly strong and power- ful, like Hercules, the mythical character famed for his strength 4. mainly, virile—having, or exhibiting, manly strength 5. mighty—powerfully strong; physically strong 6. rock-ribbed— very strong, as if ribbed by, or of, rock 7. Tarzanish—prodigious in strength, like the character in the E. R. Burroughs novels 8. titanic—gigantically or tremendously strong 9. wiry—strong and slim 10. withy—strong, but bending easily 2. Strength,n. From sec. 1: brawniness, force or forcefulness, …show more content…
Strong Person,n. From Sec. 1: stalwart; Hercules, husky, tarzad, Titan; also: 1. Atlas—very strong person, after the deity in Greek mythology who supported the world on his shoulders 2. Samson—very strong man, after the Bib-lical …show more content…
Strong in Body or Build: able-bodied, bouncing, burly muscular, robust; robustious (humorous); stalwart, stocky, stout, sturdy, adj. (burliness, muscularity, robustness, stal-wartness, stockiness, stoutness, sturdiness,n. stalwart,n.) 7. Having Strength of Muscles: brawny, muscular,adj. (brawn or brawniness, muscu-larity,n.) 8. Vigorous: bouncing, rugged, sineway, sin-ewed, or sinewous; sound, tough, vibrant, virile (of men),adj. 9. Vigor: birr, pith, ruggedness, sinewiness or sinewousness, soundness, stamina, tough-ness, vibrancy, vigorousness, vim, virility, vitality, zip,n. (stamina,adj.) 10. Vigorous and Young: blooming, youthful, adj. (bloom, youth or youthfulness,n.) 11. To Be in a State of Vigor and Fresh-ness: bloom,v. (bloom,n.) 12. Vigorous and Full of Life: lusty, vital,adj. (lustiness, vitality or vitalness,n.) 13. Vigor of the Physiological Functions of a Bodily Organ or Organs, or of the Body as a Whole: tone, tonicity, or tonus,n. (tonic, adj.) 14. Vigor as of, or Suggestive of, Freshly Growing Plants: verdure,n. 15. Time of Greatest Vigor: bloom. Prime,n. 16. Strong in the Sense of Being Able to Withstand or Endure Fatigue, Injury, Ex-tremes of Temperature, or Similar Hard-ships: hardy, rugged, stalwart, sturdy, tough,
Clever, heroic and cocky. these are the words that come to my mind when I think of Odysseus from the Odyssey. Although some people think Odysseus is not a hero nevertheless he is because he always did his best to save, help and was loyal to his men he also never gave up on returning back home to Ithaca to be with his wife Penelope and his son
Everyone has a different definition of what strength means. In this novel strength is addressed several times, but they were different types of strength. Finny is a strong athlete, Gene is a strong academic student, Finny shows strength by accepting his injury, and Gene has strong contradicting feelings about his friendship with Finny. All in all strength is measured by opinions and that’s just the truth.
Tall with a formal clothes and usually fought with bodily fitting suit on. b. Beowulf i. Believed to be tall, muscular, and tanned. ii. Tall with leather armor and sometimes fought naked. II.
In an epic poem there is an epic hero. The hero like Odysseus is strong, brave, confident and courageous. Though Odysseus is strong, cunning and courageous, he also has flaws such as great pride, love of any attention
From time to time a city, or area does something that shows off their strength and character. This happened in the city of Boston. During this time, the phrase Boston Strong was used to describe the strength and perseverance of the residents of this city. Amazon has a variety of Boston Strong hats for residents, those who want to show their support, and those who want to show off their own inner strength. Our affordable prices make it easy for anyone who wants to wear their very own Boston Strong items, to do so.
For example, Beowulf was a serious and worthy subject who was head and shoulders above everyone else around. “In his far-off home Beowulf, Higlac’s follower and the strongest of the Geats - greater and stronger than anyone in this world” (Raffel 109-113). Next, a lot of action included feats of superhuman strength. “Grendel to gnaw the broken bones of his last human supper” (Raffel 310). Grendel was so strong that he could humans and chewed their bones.
Odysseus proves his strength against the lotus eaters, and the cyclops. A Superhuman is braver, stronger, and cleverer than ordinary people. Beowulf was the only person who was willing to fight Grendel and was able to destroy him.
The epic poem, Beowulf, describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times (GÓMEZ-CALDERÓN). The hero, Beowulf, was an amazing warrior with all the unusual values required by a hero. He was able to use his super-human physical strength and bravery to put his people before himself. He stumbled upon disturbing monsters and the wildest beasts, but he never feared death
Multiple cultures value strength as an important heroic trait. Both Odysseus and Genghis Khan were strong. Odysseus’ strength was shown during the games on the Phaeacian land. Some of the Phaeacian men were mocking Odysseus and showing off their discus-throwing skills. Odysseus then amazes them by using a heavier discus.
If you were to think about a man with great abilities like being strong, courageous and intelligent, you could think of people you personally or like me, you could think of someone such as Odysseus. Odysseus fits the definition of an epic hero because he is quick thinking, strong and courageous. Odysseus is one quick thinking individual. He has gotten him and his crew out some some sticky situations with his clever plans. One of these plans were how to get away from Polyphemus, a cyclops who was the son of Poseidon.
His strength isn’t what makes him great; but it is what he does with his strength plus his
“FULL OF PRIDE” Pride...many are proud to be prideful but many believe it to be a curse. The great gatsby takes the pride to another level. Many readers can say the book has other themes to it but when reader start to sink into the book and soon find out pride comes out more than people may think. When thinking about characters that come to mind when you think of pride is Nick. F. Scott Fitzgerald gave nick an impression to the reader that Nick is not the type of guy to be prideful.
In The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus is the main character of the epic poem. Three adjectives that describe him are brave, clever, and overconfident. Firstly, the adjective brave describes Odysseus. An example of him being brave is when he uses a spike to blind the Cyclops’ eye.
He is strong, but not overly sharp, as he doesn’t get
To be physically strong, is to be able to run fast, lift heavy objects, and generally be able to overpower the competition. This asset is very valuable when it comes to fight or flight life or death type of situations. For instance, let’s say that you are in a 9/11 scenario and your flight has