1
: active bodily or mental strength or force
2
: active healthy well-balanced growth especially of plants
3
: intensity of action or effect : force
4
: effective legal status
Examples of vigor in a Sentence
She defended her beliefs with great vigor.
she was picked to lead the volunteer group because of her vigor and enthusiasm
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As Zidler, Petkoff portrays with vigor a self-serving weasel, albeit with a heart.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2025
Institutions from the Vatican to corporate boardrooms have long debated how to balance vigor and judgment.
—John Samuels, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The insistence on common sense in America, with its echo in Donald Trump’s rhetoric, had a peculiar moral dimension, almost as if the cultural health and vigor of this society depended on its not succumbing to the decadence of the Old World.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Around the same time, a crop of influential food chemists introduced the concept of vitamins and minerals to the general public, and loudly pitched daily milk drinking as a low-cost life hack for better health and vigor.
—HubSpot, 2 May 2025
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2025
Institutions from the Vatican to corporate boardrooms have long debated how to balance vigor and judgment.
—John Samuels, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The insistence on common sense in America, with its echo in Donald Trump’s rhetoric, had a peculiar moral dimension, almost as if the cultural health and vigor of this society depended on its not succumbing to the decadence of the Old World.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Around the same time, a crop of influential food chemists introduced the concept of vitamins and minerals to the general public, and loudly pitched daily milk drinking as a low-cost life hack for better health and vigor.
—HubSpot, 2 May 2025
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“Vigor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vigor. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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vigor
noun
vig·or
ˈvig-ər 
1
: active strength or energy of body or mind
2
: active strength or force
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