Strong-minded: alternatives and connections

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.

A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.

A big, masculine wife.

Having an active or vigorous mind.

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, t…

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as,…

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women.

The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the mascu…

The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; us…

To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communicat…

The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (th…

Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.

Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.