▸(of a market) having steadily high or rising prices.
great in intensity or degree:
strong competition for land.
▸(of something seen or heard) not soft or muted.
▸pungent and full-flavoured.
▸(of a solution or drink) containing a large proportion of a substance.
used after a number to indicate the size of a group:
a hostile crowd several thousands strong.
Grammar denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by a change of vowel within the stem rather than by addition of a suffix (e.g. swim, swam, swum).
Phrase
come on strong informal behave aggressively or assertively.
going strong informal continuing to be healthy, vigorous, or successful.
strong on
good at.
possessing large quantities of.
strong meat Brit. ideas or language likely to be found unacceptably forceful or extreme.
In Vincent Van Cough’s paintings, the audience can strongly feel his love to life mingled with some uncertain sadness and pain. That means passion and pain are often ______ in his drawings.