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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-307/
- Published: 2020-11-28T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-27T20:23:44.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

strenuous (adj) – 1\. Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion.

1. Vigorously active; energetic or zealous.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/strenuous?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “Characterised by great effort,” mid-15th c (implied in strenuously), from Latin strenuus “active, brisk, quick, nimble, prompt, vigorous, keen.” Probably cognate with Greek str?nes, str?nos “keen, strong,” strenos “arrogance, eager desire,” Old English stierne “hard, severe, keen”. Mocked by Ben Jonson as a pedantic neologism in “Poetaster” (1601). Sense of “requiring much energy” is first recorded 1670s.

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