High-strength
adj.resilient, capableprofessional
What it means
Engineered or selected to provide unusually great strength for a stated use.
Reach for it when describing material capacity only with a named test, load, or grade
High-strength cable secured the temporary bridge during the load trial.
Choose between these
5- everyday
heavy-duty
the item is intended for demanding repeated use
not when Heavy-duty can mean durable or bulky without a verified strength rating.
- everyday
plain language is enough and the basis is already clear
not when Strong is relative and says nothing about the tested property or threshold.
- professional
high-tensile
resistance to pulling force is the tested property
not when High-tensile is wrong when compression, shear, or impact controls the design.
- professional
reinforced
added material or structure provides greater capacity
not when Reinforced describes construction method, not the strength ultimately achieved.
- formal
the whole system tolerates stress and variation
not when Robust is broad and can become empty without a failure mode.
Said against
3- low-strength
- weak
- brittle
It naturally appears in
3- high-strength steel
High-strength steel reduced weight while meeting the specified load.
- high-strength cable
Every high-strength cable carries a traceable test certificate.
- high-strength material
The high-strength material still failed when installed with the wrong fastener.
Where this comes from
High-strength has no separate Wiktionary entry as retrieved. The source grounds strength, while the compound still requires a named engineering measure.
High-strength is not a headword in the dictionaries below. The sense was checked against their entries for strength, and the definition and example here are written for High-strength itself.
- Wiktionary, the entry for strength, Compound reading from strength noun sense: capacity to withstand force opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.