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ROBUST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rough and crude
Example:
a robust tale
Classified under:
Similar:
unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
Example:
a robust perennial
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Similar:
vigorous (strong and active physically or mentally)
square-built (broad and solidly built)
heavy-armed (having massive arms)
half-hardy ((of plants) requiring protection from frost)
hardy (able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions)
hardy; stalwart; stout; sturdy (having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships)
cast-iron; iron (extremely robust)
big-shouldered; broad-shouldered; square-shouldered (having broad shoulders)
big-chested; chesty (marked by a large or well-developed chest)
big-boned (having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh)
beefy; buirdly; burly; husky; strapping (muscular and heavily built)
Also:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
rugged (sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring)
strong (having strength or power greater than average or expected)
Antonym:
frail (physically weak)
Derivation:
robustness (the property of being strong and healthy in constitution)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity
Example:
a robust faith
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Adjectives
Similar:
strong (having strength or power greater than average or expected)
Derivation:
robustness (the characteristic of being strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Marked by richness and fullness of flavor
Example:
the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee
Synonyms:
full-bodied; racy; rich; robust
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Adjectives
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Context examples:
The evolutionary logic of living in trees on a diet solely of leaves, it seems, is less than robust.
(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)
By combining the latest theoretical predictions, statistical tools and new Hubble observations, we now have a much more robust result than was previously possible.
(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)
In other words, the selected communities look like a stable, healthy plant microbiome, akin to what a robust tomato plant might pass to its offspring.
(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)
Keep your health robust at this December 11 full moon, as you could be working too hard and need rest.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Surprisingly, the researchers found that participants with high levels of NA antibodies experienced a more robust protective effect from the vaccine than did those in the high HA group.
(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)
Researchers have successfully used sound waves to control quantum information in a single electron, a significant step towards efficient, robust quantum computers made from semiconductors.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
Mice with restricted diets had more robust memory T cell responses and were better protected from illness.
(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)
In truth, she was far from robust, and the need of her body and mind was for strength.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her constitution is both sound and elastic;—better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There is naught in this, for it was but saying that you were a strong and robust man, who had need of a good destrier.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
