Meanings
plural strong points
- A characteristic or ability at which one particularly excels.
'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point. The word you are trying to think of is solipsism.[…]'
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 242Synonyms: forte, strong suit, strength
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA characteristic or ability at which one particularly excels.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan asset of special worth or utility
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